The Great LJ Purge
In case you've missed it, journals with "questionable content" are disappearing left and right, courtesy of these... individuals.
Operating under the guise of "protecting the innocent by fighting child molesters," anything that mentions certain words or terms is immediately flagged and deleted, permanently, without review or question, and the obviously filter-based sweeps mean that I can't even mention those words here for discussion purposes lest this journal disappear as well.
Considering their all-inclusive mauling, this smells less of innocent rosebuds being sheltered from depredation and more like someone's personal vendetta being turned into a site-wide tool of revenge. You wish for me to back up that statement? Journals and communities about a particular style of fashion and a certain literary classic have gone straight to DEV/NULL while having no content whatsoever that would flag them as being against LJ's TOS, much less have anything to do with pedophilia.
Your recourse? In this case: none. It seems as though the persons behind this so-called purifying of LJ have convinced The Powers That Be (most likely through threats of a lawsuit or bad press) that their only option is to remove everything, immediately, and without thought or consideration.
Now, as someone that was herself a victim of what these individuals claim to be against, even I find their level of self-righteous indignation to be ridiculous. I would support them if they were operating within reason - but reason is clearly one of the things they've lost sight of already. Instead of attacking a place with a well-documented history of being rife of their particular variant of targets (myspace), they've chosen to hold their personal, Custerian last stand here on LiveJournal and push it to ludicrous extremes.
The Internet, ladies and gents: Lacking intelligence since 1995. Now your humble author shall sit back and count the minutes until this journal is tossed into the void for daring to even mention this topic.
Operating under the guise of "protecting the innocent by fighting child molesters," anything that mentions certain words or terms is immediately flagged and deleted, permanently, without review or question, and the obviously filter-based sweeps mean that I can't even mention those words here for discussion purposes lest this journal disappear as well.
Considering their all-inclusive mauling, this smells less of innocent rosebuds being sheltered from depredation and more like someone's personal vendetta being turned into a site-wide tool of revenge. You wish for me to back up that statement? Journals and communities about a particular style of fashion and a certain literary classic have gone straight to DEV/NULL while having no content whatsoever that would flag them as being against LJ's TOS, much less have anything to do with pedophilia.
Your recourse? In this case: none. It seems as though the persons behind this so-called purifying of LJ have convinced The Powers That Be (most likely through threats of a lawsuit or bad press) that their only option is to remove everything, immediately, and without thought or consideration.
Now, as someone that was herself a victim of what these individuals claim to be against, even I find their level of self-righteous indignation to be ridiculous. I would support them if they were operating within reason - but reason is clearly one of the things they've lost sight of already. Instead of attacking a place with a well-documented history of being rife of their particular variant of targets (myspace), they've chosen to hold their personal, Custerian last stand here on LiveJournal and push it to ludicrous extremes.
The Internet, ladies and gents: Lacking intelligence since 1995. Now your humble author shall sit back and count the minutes until this journal is tossed into the void for daring to even mention this topic.