I know, I know, don't succumb to the panic... but if anyone's already over there, I'm 'strangecreature' on Greatestjournal too now. :-P Call it my official Plan B.
So I crawl out from under the academic rock to find my flist in an uproar. I feel obliged to quote my kid sister and say 'this shit is whack, yo'. Er. So much for civil liberties. And here I thought, LJ, being written and hosted on an open-source platform would be immune to this kind of stuff. (Open source standards should extend further than software in my book.) Mea culpa I guess. Guess I should head over to greatest journal forthwith. So other than this WfI nonsense, what's been up? How you doin? Decide on a law school yet?
Hi!! I was just wondering where you had disappeared to the other day. Welcome back to the chaos!
The mass exodus to GJ doesn't seem to be quite as permanent as I'd thought yesterday. More of a cloning thing. As for the freedom of expression angle... I mean, damn, they have enough trouble drawing that fine line in real live court. I wouldn't want to be the team that has to go through and make that call on each of the suspended journals/comms now, eh?
I've been quite excellent, and thanks fer askin'! Got an apartment up in Edmonton and decided on U of A for the school mainly for proximity. Heh. Maybe I'll be ready for a bigger move next year.
Heh. I hadn't actually disappeared; I was still lurked occasionally. But you know how it can get in academia... way too much work and not enough time
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I say we petition for an extra day in the week. That'd free up some time!
It's starting to ebb from the looks of it, but just because of the amount of people who got a scare with this one and the immediacy of the action taken, I think people are going to be sore for a while.
Yes! I might be a biased Mill-junkie on some occasions, but... yes! *g* Your brain is shiny and good.
In the TOS, it does mention that they don't want to have to host obscenity, but I almost want to say that a blog, just of its own merit, has some artistic value and so doesn't fit the definition of obscenity, you know? On the flip side, if someone was using a blog to lure in kids for some nefarious purpose or another, I say take 'em out. There's a big fat difference between words and words used to spur action. Yelling 'fire' in a theatre or writing 'Hey, little kid, send me some pictures...' on a website is a heck of a lot different than fiction written on the subject. The one that shocked me was the deletion of a book comm discussing 'Lolita'. O_o Talk about
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Extra day a week, huh? I like it. Who the heck said there should only be seven, anyway?
Woot! Mill junkies unite! Reading 'Utilitarianism' and 'On Liberty' was definitely my favorite part of ethics class.Yup, there's a huge difference between yelling "Fire!" in a theatre and going around saying "Yelling 'fire!' in theatres is cool." The first should not be tolerated, and the second must be (at least I think so). But consider this: Law enforcement agencies go to great lengths to track online predators in order to catch them in the act and bring them to justice. If there were such predators on LJ and LJ had a way of detecting them then deleting their journals makes no sense whatsoever. It just chases them out into the vastness of cyberspace where they then have to be tracked down all over again if they are to ever be 'brought to justice'. So the actions that WfI demanded and that LJ subsequently took did nothing to take down any predators; it actually gave them a heads-up. Analogously, the people who got punished are the
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The mass exodus to GJ doesn't seem to be quite as permanent as I'd thought yesterday. More of a cloning thing. As for the freedom of expression angle... I mean, damn, they have enough trouble drawing that fine line in real live court. I wouldn't want to be the team that has to go through and make that call on each of the suspended journals/comms now, eh?
I've been quite excellent, and thanks fer askin'! Got an apartment up in Edmonton and decided on U of A for the school mainly for proximity. Heh. Maybe I'll be ready for a bigger move next year.
And how's life treating you these days? :-D
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It's starting to ebb from the looks of it, but just because of the amount of people who got a scare with this one and the immediacy of the action taken, I think people are going to be sore for a while.
Yes! I might be a biased Mill-junkie on some occasions, but... yes! *g* Your brain is shiny and good.
In the TOS, it does mention that they don't want to have to host obscenity, but I almost want to say that a blog, just of its own merit, has some artistic value and so doesn't fit the definition of obscenity, you know? On the flip side, if someone was using a blog to lure in kids for some nefarious purpose or another, I say take 'em out. There's a big fat difference between words and words used to spur action. Yelling 'fire' in a theatre or writing 'Hey, little kid, send me some pictures...' on a website is a heck of a lot different than fiction written on the subject. The one that shocked me was the deletion of a book comm discussing 'Lolita'. O_o Talk about ( ... )
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Woot! Mill junkies unite! Reading 'Utilitarianism' and 'On Liberty' was definitely my favorite part of ethics class.Yup, there's a huge difference between yelling "Fire!" in a theatre and going around saying "Yelling 'fire!' in theatres is cool." The first should not be tolerated, and the second must be (at least I think so). But consider this: Law enforcement agencies go to great lengths to track online predators in order to catch them in the act and bring them to justice. If there were such predators on LJ and LJ had a way of detecting them then deleting their journals makes no sense whatsoever. It just chases them out into the vastness of cyberspace where they then have to be tracked down all over again if they are to ever be 'brought to justice'. So the actions that WfI demanded and that LJ subsequently took did nothing to take down any predators; it actually gave them a heads-up. Analogously, the people who got punished are the ( ... )
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