more clarifications

[burr86]

We're seeing a lot of confusion in the comments to our previous post. Our intention is to provide clarification, not to create concern. All it says is that things that are illegal under United States law aren't allowed here, either. (And as a note to our non-US users: yeah, we know since the laws are different, they can be really confusing to

Comments

[red_eft]

Why are you only enforcing obscenity laws having to do with underage content? What about bestiality, or just plain old kink?

[mosspiglet]

i like this question

[lexexperiment]

Actually, it looks like they're consistently going after explicit m/m pr0n, even where the people involved are (a) fictional (b)over 18, so I think it's more homophobia than anything else.

[jesspark]

Yes -- where are you drawing the line with regards to obscenity laws, and why? As much as I may disagree with this whole line of thought to begin with, an "all or nothing" approach would make a lot more sense; at least you'd be being consistent and fair.

[necrotica]

Thanks for the clarifications; they're appreciated.

[jigglypuff]

This is because of AS/S. I'm sure of it.

Either way, this is... tl;dr, all I get is that you're going all legal on our asses.

[meetviolent]

AS/S mention ftw.

FTW I SAY.

[jigglypuff]

And on the first page.

[hearts_erised]

I agree

AS/S is my new OTP

[claire]

PANTS!

[lauriegilbert]

I'm sorry, but I'm still not happy. There are so many other issues that should be included in these enforcements, and you have yet to clarify how this will be enforced. Will a single post cause the suspension of an entire journal without any chance of changing the post? Will locked posts be analysed as well? Will the people who were deleted and reinstated have things to fear again? I sadly still have more questions than answers.

[onlytalewetell]

You pose great questions here, and I'm curious about all of the answers as well... But I for one am very happy with the progress made so long as it continues. Obscenity laws and rules are confusing even to the courts and it's probably taking a long time even for the 6A/LJ staff to get a handle on what they mean, much less convey it to the users.

[darksunlight]

I am in agreement with this poster. Will people be warned? Is it automatic suspension? What id it's only one posting in a commynity that addresses something like this, will yous uspend the whole community?

Please, more answers.

[trace_of_tears]

Livejournal has always incorporated into it's structure for suspended accounts the ability of the user to appeal the decision, to ask for information on why the decision was given and, as we saw in the last "issue" of this sort, the ability to work with Livejournal administrators and change, fix, or explain content that may have been targeted in this sort of thing.

One single post is not terribly likely to net you a suspension -- Livejournal does not spend all day reviewing every post that every user makes. Instead, a post, or several posts, have to be reported to Livejournal for review.

I'm not a LJ/6A administrator, though -- these are my interpretations based on what I have seen and heard so far and what I have seen in the ToS.