It's not all WFI
I definately understand the concern for everyone and their fear of losing some of their freedom of speech. Personally, I'm upset becaus recently I found a beautiful anime series that hints at Lolita, and now i fear talking about it in my LJ because I dont want to be banned, however i just visited the Warriors for Innocence site, and i found this:
Many LJ users have that have had their journals deleted are complaining to WFI that we targeted them and that we are on a witch hunt to shut down innocent sites.
To answer your questions and concerns, we do know what Lolita is and no, we did not report sites that are about Lolita fashion. Those sites were deleted by LJ because LJ (not WFI) chose to delete all sites with certain “interests” listed.
“Did it ever occur to you people that some of the people who have “incest” or “rape” in their interests are victims of said action?”
Yes, it did. We can tell the difference between a pedophile site and a survivor/support group site. And no, we did not ask for the survivor/support group sites to be deleted. We actually expressed our concern over keeping them up and running even though their interests may be listed as the same as a pedophile site.
You may find it easy to blame us for the deletion of these sites, but we are disturbed by their deletions as well. LJ is obviously trying to avoid accusations of discrimination by deleting all sites with specific interests listed. They made that decision, not WFI. Go ahead and point a finger at us. Call us vigilantes and idiots. Accuse us of banning or deleting you. But you forgot something. LJ is hosting your sites. It’s their call, not WFI’s.
I have no problem standing up and saying that yes, innocent journals were deleted by LJ. Yes it was done because I complained to LJ about pedophiles on their site. Yes, this has caused a lot of problems for a lot of people. And yes, I am sorry that there has been mass hysteria over this. But NO, we are not responsible. I will not take the blame for LJ enforcing their rules as they see fit. I may have been the catalyst, but I did not make the decisions for LJ. LJ can delete any journals that THEY view as containing objectionable content. Childish complaints that I “targeted” this journal, or that journal, are misplaced, and serve no purpose.
Now i do understand why everyone is angry, and i honestly believe that if these people want to really prevent molesters from targeting kids, they should put up seminars for parents and children to attend to about internet safety. heck, when i started coming on places where i would talk to other people, i knew right away not to show my identity, and my decision was to create an fake name, use avatars that look nothing like me, and if i had to put something about where i live on certain sites, i used a zipcode for an entirely different state, and i think that's being a bit over protective. However, I think Livejournal itself is partially to blame for these bannings.