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[coeli]

Apparently, LJ is trying to force new users to specify gender on their profiles rather than being able to choose "unspecified" or skip the field. This is for "advertising," but it's an absurd invasion of privacy.

I've changed my profile to "unspecified" in protest. How about you?

Comments

[gbsteve]

Apparently it was a coding error which has now been fixed.

[coeli]

That's great! Have you got a link that I can pass around? I know a bunch of folks who were unhappy about this.

[coeli]

Ah, found it myself after poking around for a while longer:
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1358959.html

[coeli]

Here's the response I just received