Open Letter to LiveJournal/Six Apart

[imaginarycircus]

Dear LiveJournal/Six Apart,

I was cautiously optimistic when you announced your new two strike policy. And I think it is great that you offered apologies to elaboration and ponderosa121 and offered to reinstate their journals.

However this sentence in your post at lj_biz is troubling

Comments

[florahart]

*signs*

(also, I TOO made this point to rachel, and to other 6A staff. This is just not. that. complicated.)

update

[imaginarycircus]

You may have seen that anildash, VP of Six Apart, responded to this letter here. He posted some clarification and an apology here.

I took him up on his offer to chat via email and you can see our correspondence (so far) here.

[grenzgestalt]

I am most happy to sign this letter. Thank you for writing it!

[imaginarycircus]

Thanks for all your help. I hope your opera was fabulous. :)

and updates:

You may have seen that anildash, VP of Six Apart, responded to this letter here. He posted some clarification and an apology here.

I took him up on his offer to chat via email and you can see our correspondence (so far) here.

[grenzgestalt]

Thank you! If his offer for correspondence is open, I'd like to eail him.... I'm off to read your emails now.

[imaginarycircus]

Sure, I think that would be cool. :)

*signed with the stub of a broken blue pencil*

[speck]

Will come back to link where I'd previously asked them to cut it out.

There is a lot of major screw ups there - is there anyone who can take a breath there, step back, and bring in some reason? Seriously?

"childporn" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[speck]

Nuance is important ... "child porn"

If it really were about child porn, Strikeout and Boldthrough would have never happened.

real porn or fake porn bannings?

Re: *signed with the stub of a broken blue pencil*

[ext_58826]

Gratuitous OpenID pimping ...

Re: *signed with the stub of a broken blue pencil*

[ext_59510]

Gratuitous OpenID pimping response XD ...

[littleroo27]

*signs*

I also left a comment on the lj_biz post here and e-mailed rachel regarding the wording listed above.

updates

[imaginarycircus]

Hey, you may have seen that anildash, VP of Six Apart, responded to this letter here. He posted some clarification and an apology here.

I took him up on his offer to chat via email and you can see our correspondence (so far) here.

[briarwood]

Given how dense LJ are on this matter, I question whether they'll understand what "=/=" means.

That said, I am happy to concur with your letter. In consistently equating explicit fan art with child pornography, it is my belief that Six Apart have publicly defamed the fan artists they suspended. They are owed an equally public apology.

And as to which communities feel offended? It's all of us who are intelligent enough to recognise the (blindingly obvious) difference between artists and child rapists.

[imaginarycircus]

Do you think I should I change it to does not equal written out?

[briarwood]

I would. You know, just in case they're that stupid.

[imaginarycircus]

Ok, I will edit. :)