LJ Dramaramathon

[jaiser]

So there's apparently some huge drama on LJ over the fact that Six Apart has put the smack down on slash fic involving minors. No more Harry Potter and Severus Snape slash (who knew there was such a thing - I must be sheltered

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[laureth]

I bet LJ employees can read it. Sort of how like customers couldn't get into my office at the 'Hole, but the store team leader could. I'm just guessing.

[jaiser]

But that would contradict their stated 'we aren't actively searching for it, someone must tell us about it' policy. If any ol' LJ employee can access my private entries just b/c they're curious, I'm not happy. Hopefully I'm not being naive, but I'm gonna pretend they can't.

[laureth]

Ah, okay, I missed that part for some reason. *shrug*

[jaiser]

Yah, I'm not too worried about the whole thing. It's more the 1st amendment thing that gets me. Anytime someone starts to censor fiction, I get a little worried. I just didn't know how many folks knew about this and I know some of our mutual LJers are into slash (though I don't know what types) so I thought I'd post it. There's an LJ by bad_wolf_bitch that gets a bit political about the whole thing. I'm trying to cut down on drama, but I think I'll keep a little watch on this issue. One LJer raised the issue that breastfeeding a baby qualifies under the "banned items". Sigh. We'll see.

[laureth]

That's the thing. The *government* can't censor us, at least they're not supposed to, but LJ isn't the government. They're a business. That's what so many people don't understand.

[murstein]

Actually, anyone with the root password - or Administrator, if it's running on Windoze boxen - can see anything on the server that's not encrypted. Of course, with about 13.5 million accounts, one must wonder how likely a snoop at the data center is to find your personal stash.