Adult content?

[etherealgrace]

I was considering posting something else, but when looking at the options for this entry, I noticed something new. Apparently, there is now an adult content marker that allows you to flag entries, journals, or communities as containing adult content. Details can be found here.

I'm not really sure how I feel about this. I'm generally against

Comments

[hoskie]

I set my journal to the default of "18+ adult content" just so I wouldn't have to worry about it. Not that it much matters because my entire journal is flocked.

If this means we're allowed to keep our smut communities, I'm all for it. ;P

[etherealgrace]

Fair enough. Where I take issue is with the idea that women's breasts are always sexual. Why do people continue to perpetuate this idea?

[evilwildlex]

I think my biggest problem with the flagging system is the fact that anyone can flag your journal entries if they so choose, as opposed to it being a voluntary thing to keep teenagers from seeing pornography.

Despite me not being a fan of censorship, LJ does have the right to make its own rules. It is a privately owned company, and a great many of users are using free accounts. I can say that I think some of their recent censorship actions are pretty jerkish (and I do think and say that) but I won't deny their right to make their own rules in their own sandbox.

Let's say that I run a site that people can join up with, but for some reason, I don't want anyone ever using the word "dance" or writing about dancing because I can't dance and talking about dancing offends me. It would be stupid but I would be allowed to do it legally, and people would have a choice in whether they joined up on my site or not.

Basically, I don't agree with what they do, but they have the right to do it.

[etherealgrace]

They totally do, yes. This post is mostly just ranting on my part...