Memo to the new LJAB Member
Earlier today I posted the following message to our newly elected Live Journal Advisory Board member. I have not yet gotten a response back from her, but I am hoping that she may chose to either join our group or at the very least create a forum where we can express our goals and ideas to her for consideration by the board. I will update the
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No response yet, though.
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Side Note: A number of our issues were at least partly dealt with by the new policy changes, and I was wondering if you wanted to go over them and make a post regarding those changes and propose the necessary updates to our charter goals.
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Judging from the changes, I see some real possibilities that their policy changes might actually lead to further restrictions against users.
They have, for example, indicated that they are actually expanding the definition of what is hate speech. But what if that's not really hate speech, per se, but parody, comedy, etc? What if it's the LJ equivalent of ginger kids? Or what about the example recently of a LJ user in Russia who faces imprisonment for suggesting that corrupt police be publically burned in town squares? Clearly, that's hate speech now too under these new definitions, even though it only focuses against corrupt cops -- criminals, essentially -- and not against any racial, ethnic, religious, or sexual orientation, as any true hate speech legislation would ordinarily be limited by. And again, no limits as to context ( ... )
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