Comments | lolaraincoat: What and who got suspended unfairly (according to me)

lolaraincoat

What and who got suspended unfairly (according to me)

May 31, 2007 00:16

In case you don't want to wade through the fouteen updates and 180 comments on the first post I made about The Great LiveJournal Purge of '07, here's what it shakes out as:

These individual users are members of fannish communities and in some cases survivors of rape and/or incest, and their livejournals appear not to have condoned or encouraged ( Read more... )

fans, fanfic, lj

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cordelia_v May 31 2007, 13:25:32 UTC

Thank you, sugar. This is the sort of careful, detail-oriented, dispassionate analysis that our disciline is good for. You do us proud.

lolaraincoat May 31 2007, 13:33:09 UTC

Thanks, sweetie. Parts of this were quite sick-making, because so personal. So hard not to just keep "I'm not THEM!" about some of the purged communities and journals. But yeah, it's important to just keep track, y'know?

Oh, yeah, you know.

codename_windy May 31 2007, 14:01:42 UTC

This post does not seem to include the shota community. While I can see that is something many people would find disgusting, it is still a community dedicated to art and stories of fully *fictional* characters.

lolaraincoat May 31 2007, 16:02:27 UTC

I'm sorry to say that I don't know what the word shota means. Was

codename_windy May 31 2007, 16:30:26 UTC

Shota is anime related term which basically means material with fictional underaged boys involved in sexual situations. I would say it was definitely a fan community, even if it was not just fans of specific series, but of a whole genre. It is also not really a grey area, seeing as shota is not even remotely about *real* children.

ptyx May 31 2007, 14:11:31 UTC

Thanks for putting up this list. I'm linking to you, again.

lolaraincoat May 31 2007, 16:18:30 UTC

Thanks for linking! It helps with the accuracy ...

ptyx June 1 2007, 11:13:27 UTC

OK... More than 12 hours later, some of the individuals/communities are still suspended. Is there anything that we can do? Shall we do anything?

fodirteg June 2 2007, 01:52:27 UTC

Barak's latest post (on ljnews seems) to indicate that they've now reinstated all the journals that they feel did not "clearly violate" community policies. I suppose that means that they do not intend to reinstate any others?
http://news.livejournal.com/

ptyx June 2 2007, 11:56:08 UTC

Yep. I'm asking about that on my LJ:
http://ptyx.livejournal.com/551134.html