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So I guess it's time to talk about this because everyone else is, and it's making me so angry I can't even think about it without writing some of it down.
So LJ is deleting journals and communities with 'questionable' interests because of some insane radical group that's leaning on SixApart. I don't understand how they think this is solving anything. It's called censorship and this isn't the place for it. We're not on your cable TV and we're not even in your bookstores. We're on the internet, mostly under locked entries and I think there's a little thing called PARENTAL CONTROL. Sorry everyone, I don't care if your kids aren't allowed to read about sex and violence - that's YOUR job to make sure they don't. I don't have to stop reading and writing it so that youth isn't contaminated or other bullshit. I don't see how deleting journals is going to stop pedophiles. The pedophiles who are on livejournal will stop talking about it and start doing it. I OBVIOUSLY DON'T CONDONE PEDOPHILIA or any kind of violence but deleting journals based on interests is ridiculous.
How is this democracy still even attempting to call itself a democracy? This is like any other kind of witch hunting - am I a bad person because I read Fred/George slash [who P.S. are fictional characters and I'm sure they're not protesting -- JK Rowling even knows fandom exists and I'm sure Fred/George slash is less offensive than Harry/Voldemort slash.] I'm just flabbergasted that anyone can actually allow this to happen. FREEDOM OF SPEECH does not immediately mean freedom of action and because someone writes non-con or even chan doesn't mean they're rampant pedophiles and need to be put away. This doesn't even have anything to do with that -- these Warriors for Innocence think shutting down a few journals on this site is going to stop kids from reading porn? From seeing violence? There's TV and movies and the library for kids to find all sorts of stuff but WAIT - parents [try] [and are supposed to] censor that stuff. You don't want kids to see it/hear it/read it/watch it? Then exercise your parental controls and change the channel, block sites on the internet, monitor their reading, their movies etc etc and so on. I'm not big on censorship of any kind, but parents, if you want to inhibit your children, THAT'S YOUR JOB. Not mine. I'm 18 years of age and [in this same country trying to take away my rights] I'm allowed to watch porn, read porn, write porn -- I can handle violence, and I don't think anyone who writes chan is a pedophile. MONITOR YOUR CHILDREN BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO.
Freedom of speech, I'm sick of everything being censored -- I roll my eyes at myself when I watch Adult Swim [omg adult TV shows on a kids network -- CALL THE AUTHORITIES] and I gasp at a particularly racy bit of humor. I think everyone needs to be a little bit less repressed, but that's not really what I'm here to talk about. I'm saying that it's a parents job to censor their kids, it's the government's job to crack down on child molestors [and by the way I don't think a lot of them are going to have 'children children and more children' as their interests on a PUBLIC journal -- seems a bit stupid to me] and my right to read/watch whatever I want -- and talk about it, if I want to. People can search interests and find out that I like certain things, and we can be friends because of it.
Ridiculous. Freedom of speech is pretty shot to shit, and I'm disgusted.
So LJ is deleting journals and communities with 'questionable' interests because of some insane radical group that's leaning on SixApart. I don't understand how they think this is solving anything. It's called censorship and this isn't the place for it. We're not on your cable TV and we're not even in your bookstores. We're on the internet, mostly under locked entries and I think there's a little thing called PARENTAL CONTROL. Sorry everyone, I don't care if your kids aren't allowed to read about sex and violence - that's YOUR job to make sure they don't. I don't have to stop reading and writing it so that youth isn't contaminated or other bullshit. I don't see how deleting journals is going to stop pedophiles. The pedophiles who are on livejournal will stop talking about it and start doing it. I OBVIOUSLY DON'T CONDONE PEDOPHILIA or any kind of violence but deleting journals based on interests is ridiculous.
How is this democracy still even attempting to call itself a democracy? This is like any other kind of witch hunting - am I a bad person because I read Fred/George slash [who P.S. are fictional characters and I'm sure they're not protesting -- JK Rowling even knows fandom exists and I'm sure Fred/George slash is less offensive than Harry/Voldemort slash.] I'm just flabbergasted that anyone can actually allow this to happen. FREEDOM OF SPEECH does not immediately mean freedom of action and because someone writes non-con or even chan doesn't mean they're rampant pedophiles and need to be put away. This doesn't even have anything to do with that -- these Warriors for Innocence think shutting down a few journals on this site is going to stop kids from reading porn? From seeing violence? There's TV and movies and the library for kids to find all sorts of stuff but WAIT - parents [try] [and are supposed to] censor that stuff. You don't want kids to see it/hear it/read it/watch it? Then exercise your parental controls and change the channel, block sites on the internet, monitor their reading, their movies etc etc and so on. I'm not big on censorship of any kind, but parents, if you want to inhibit your children, THAT'S YOUR JOB. Not mine. I'm 18 years of age and [in this same country trying to take away my rights] I'm allowed to watch porn, read porn, write porn -- I can handle violence, and I don't think anyone who writes chan is a pedophile. MONITOR YOUR CHILDREN BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO.
Freedom of speech, I'm sick of everything being censored -- I roll my eyes at myself when I watch Adult Swim [omg adult TV shows on a kids network -- CALL THE AUTHORITIES] and I gasp at a particularly racy bit of humor. I think everyone needs to be a little bit less repressed, but that's not really what I'm here to talk about. I'm saying that it's a parents job to censor their kids, it's the government's job to crack down on child molestors [and by the way I don't think a lot of them are going to have 'children children and more children' as their interests on a PUBLIC journal -- seems a bit stupid to me] and my right to read/watch whatever I want -- and talk about it, if I want to. People can search interests and find out that I like certain things, and we can be friends because of it.
Ridiculous. Freedom of speech is pretty shot to shit, and I'm disgusted.