HOIST THE COLOURS HIGH
I realize a lot of people on LiveJournal are apathetic to the recent censorship which led to LJ's Strikethrough'07. Good for you. Do what you want, think what you want.
This post is for the people who feel like they can make a difference, and hopefully help out in preventing something like this from happening again- whether it be here in LJ, or elsewhere where this censorship hasn't spread and you don't want it to spread there. LiveJournal was always my number one site for looking for great works of fiction and art, guys, not fanfiction.net or Deviantart. Sure, I have accounts there too, but LJ was the epicentre of everything. This is where you looked to if you wanted updates on fiction and artwork- for the writing challenges and for the communities that truly interested you.
We have a voice, people. We should use it before we're all silenced. If you're in a fandom and you want to do just the bare minimum of helping, then just join fandom_counts. We're 18,000 and counting the last time I checked. I joined at number 4002 just a few hours ago. No posts, just a number of people who are in the fandom communities on LiveJournal. We're not a minority.
fandom_lawyers are working hard. Why are we outraged? Because we're targeted for our opinions. For what we write as fiction. Sure, maybe it started as a mistake, but until someone admits that it was a mistake and makes sure this won't happen again, what will they do if we let this continue without raising a ruckus? Ban homosexual content? Ban adult content? A Lolita book discussion group was already banned. What next? Romeo and Juliet? Those characters are underage, after all. There's even underage sex, murder, suicide, and drug usage there. If they can target classical literature, of course they can target the online writers.
Maybe it's true that nothing we do will help, and we're just wasting time and energy. But things will only exacerbate if we do nothing. That's a damned sure fact. The least we can do is try our hardest. I have JournalFen. GreatestJournal. InsaneJournal. But I love my LiveJournal because this is where all the writers are. This place was the greatest fandom base.
Omen-chan's speech. She makes all the sense in the world, the dear.
reasoned_speech
Here a list of banners and icons: here
and here.
liz_marcs does a fantastic job here rounding up links of places to go, people to call, protests to rally.
A short list of journals banned. I know this is not limited to that, as it was reported over 500 journals were banned the past day. It's suggested that you back-up your journals if you can and are willing to do so.
Go ahead. Look through the Warriors for Innocence site and their various protests that said they never knew of fandom, and therefore didn't report all those innocent journals. Just beware- they DO have spyware, and have admitted to tracking people back from where they clicked to reach the site, which is why I'm not including a link in my journal. Look them up on Google.
LiveJournal and SixApart speaks on News.com.
Because, you know, we're all obviously paedophiles because we read and/or write fanficiton.
HERE, HAVE A PETITION.
Wikipedia has reported on Strikethrough'07.
AnimeNewsNetwork posts an article on this event.
Here's your long lost of what's been deleted via Strikethrough'07.
Interested in the big protests? Here's the 7-day proposal.
Protests on LJ News overwhelm and go past the 5000 comment limit at 100 pages.
So, naturally, we start at the next post and go on for the next forty pages.
This post is for the people who feel like they can make a difference, and hopefully help out in preventing something like this from happening again- whether it be here in LJ, or elsewhere where this censorship hasn't spread and you don't want it to spread there. LiveJournal was always my number one site for looking for great works of fiction and art, guys, not fanfiction.net or Deviantart. Sure, I have accounts there too, but LJ was the epicentre of everything. This is where you looked to if you wanted updates on fiction and artwork- for the writing challenges and for the communities that truly interested you.
We have a voice, people. We should use it before we're all silenced. If you're in a fandom and you want to do just the bare minimum of helping, then just join fandom_counts. We're 18,000 and counting the last time I checked. I joined at number 4002 just a few hours ago. No posts, just a number of people who are in the fandom communities on LiveJournal. We're not a minority.
fandom_lawyers are working hard. Why are we outraged? Because we're targeted for our opinions. For what we write as fiction. Sure, maybe it started as a mistake, but until someone admits that it was a mistake and makes sure this won't happen again, what will they do if we let this continue without raising a ruckus? Ban homosexual content? Ban adult content? A Lolita book discussion group was already banned. What next? Romeo and Juliet? Those characters are underage, after all. There's even underage sex, murder, suicide, and drug usage there. If they can target classical literature, of course they can target the online writers.
Maybe it's true that nothing we do will help, and we're just wasting time and energy. But things will only exacerbate if we do nothing. That's a damned sure fact. The least we can do is try our hardest. I have JournalFen. GreatestJournal. InsaneJournal. But I love my LiveJournal because this is where all the writers are. This place was the greatest fandom base.
Omen-chan's speech. She makes all the sense in the world, the dear.
reasoned_speech
Here a list of banners and icons: here
and here.
liz_marcs does a fantastic job here rounding up links of places to go, people to call, protests to rally.
A short list of journals banned. I know this is not limited to that, as it was reported over 500 journals were banned the past day. It's suggested that you back-up your journals if you can and are willing to do so.
Go ahead. Look through the Warriors for Innocence site and their various protests that said they never knew of fandom, and therefore didn't report all those innocent journals. Just beware- they DO have spyware, and have admitted to tracking people back from where they clicked to reach the site, which is why I'm not including a link in my journal. Look them up on Google.
LiveJournal and SixApart speaks on News.com.
Because, you know, we're all obviously paedophiles because we read and/or write fanficiton.
HERE, HAVE A PETITION.
Wikipedia has reported on Strikethrough'07.
AnimeNewsNetwork posts an article on this event.
Here's your long lost of what's been deleted via Strikethrough'07.
Interested in the big protests? Here's the 7-day proposal.
Protests on LJ News overwhelm and go past the 5000 comment limit at 100 pages.
So, naturally, we start at the next post and go on for the next forty pages.