Covering LJ's legal-ass from lawsuit-happy parents, one blogpost at a time...
featherynscale via
catvincent via
drjon
[The first two lj names above look wierd when I'm viewing them on my own page. They are "featherynscale" and "catvincent". I'm too techtarded to know why this is happening. Moving right along...]
As many of you are no doubt aware, Our logging Overlords have been suffering a nasty series of knee-jerk censorship attacks since Strikethrough. The latest binge involves 'voluntarily' (for now) classifying your LJ as either Precious-Little-Snowflake-Friendly, 'Adult Concepts' (14 and over) and 'Adult Content' (18+).
Well... there's more.
"Some of you may know that you can now set your journal to either "Adult content" (which blocks viewers under 18 from viewing) or "Adult concepts" (which blocks readers under 14). There are also options to flag someone journal as "adults only", which puts it into the queue to the moderators who will look at it and flag it for you.
As a default setting, they have EVERY SINGLE JOURNAL set to filter out the "adult content" setting! So if your friends try to do the right thing and mark their porny LJ's appropriately, you CAN'T SEE THEM until you change your viewing settings. Which is kind of hard to figure out how to, even if you know you have to in the first place.
Go to your User Options page, and click on Journal - settings. The Viewing Options page will appear ( http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/), and all the way at the bottom is a section called "AdultContent Options". Your "Safe Search Options" has been set to "use moderate filtering - filters explicit and adult content".
So if someone on your F-list has recently dropped off the map and you have no idea why, try going here and changing your settings. Otherwise, if their LJ is set to "adult" you won't be able to see any of their public entries on your friends page."
(& the following yoinked from
finn2)
PLEASE propagate this meme.
I PLEDGE : I am never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to flag anyone else's LJ entries "inappropriate" for any reason, ever.
In recognition of this, I am adding "Freedom of Expression" (actually "freedom of expression", thanks, forced case) to my interests list.
If you, too, believe that people should be free to express themselves as they see fit, copy/post this meme to your LJ, add "freedom of expression" to your interests, and encourage others to do the same.
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I expect to see hundreds of thousands more LJ's interested in "freedom of expression" by the time I get back to a computer. We sit currently at 123 communities and 414 415 journals.
Fly, my pretties. Fly.
*I will still report child porn and blatant, profiteering copyright violation, and/or actual criminal acts. To the police. SixApart and LJ aren't cops, nor are they legal professionals, and asking them to be police is inappropriate. We pay taxes to our Federal Government, here in the USA. We shall not be taxed a second time to have a private corporation perform the job of the government.