Fridays are for Freak Outs
x-posted to several communities and to my journal:
Although I took many English Lit type classes in college, I have never read the classic Lolita. My interest has been peaked by certain recent
occurrences on Live Journal. I may or may not actually search the library for the book.
Although I abhor pedophilia and such outfits as N.A.M.B.L.A., I abhor the attempts at censorships going on throughout the web. It appears that the recent debacle with Live Journal and a group of militants who are professing to protect "the innocents" have gone off the hook. Dumping users and communities who are interested in the novel Lolita, fanfic, and survivor of incest and rape issues can be described as a knee-jerk reaction at best. B.T.W., dumping spyware onto the computers of those who are checking out a link to an aforementioned group of militants is vastly uncool and probably unchristian as well.
I am a survivor of many things, including incest and rape. I support the right of people to write about those things because I support freedom of electronic speech. Therein lies a problem. The problem is that we are basically renting electronic space from Live Journal, and as such Live Journal has a right to be a complete arse about all of these things. I do have my own domain [at http://sapphoq.com and I encourage anyone with a tad of money to get their own domain at a non-google entity-- I have a push-button Google domain also but it is for a different purpose].
I have joined up all the freedom groups that have spouted from the L.J. strikeout crisis. I have been over to Insane Journal-- where permanent accounts are thirty bucks forever and for ten bucks one can get space to upload 300 user icons. Insane Journal appears to be very much like Live Journal and I wonder if they are connected. I would like to know if there is a connection before casting my vote for Insane Journal.
That is all for Freak Out Friday.
Good night dear friends and enemies and please don't eat all of the nachos.
spike