[wank] LJ and underage sex

[glossing]

Is this when fandom bids LJ adieu?

eta If you can find the redeeming merit in this, you get a shiny nickel.

Comments

[rubynye]

*collapses in exhaustion* I am ever so tired of this. (Not you, LJ.)

[glossing]

I think LJ's staff, at this point, ENJOYS digging holes for themselves. Each statement is vaguer and lamer than the last, and the hysteria (which may in fact be warranted) grows exponentially.

This comment wins everything.

*sigh*

[solvent90]

Is this about US law, though, or about LJ getting proactive about attacking content that might border on illegal? Because - not that I know much about US law - I think it's unlikely that fannish activity is illegal (at least I think the copyright issues are a much greyer area than obscenity and/or child harm issues), and fandom would have the same issues anywhere on the internet; but if it's about LJ being all proactive, then. Yes. I suppose it could be.

Re: *sigh*

[glossing]

My reading? It's LJ using something they refer to as "US law" as a cover for their own site policies. But, dude. "US law", especially obscenity law, varies from municipality to municipality, let alone from the state to federal levels.

I think their time would be better spent hiring a spokesperson who could say things clearly WITHOUT USING EMOTICONS, but that might be just me. *g*

Re: *sigh*

[solvent90]

Oh. Was that the official spokesperson? I thought it was some drive-by 'expert'. Um. Wow. *packs*

[Also, hee, Potterdammerung. I love that that's the unremarkable official term. ]

Re: *sigh*

[glossing]

Yes, that's the spokesguy. I don't think they let Barak use the keyboard any longer.

(Potterdammerung is the best coinage *ever*.)

[pearl_o]

This is such ridiculous crap as to be almost hilarious. Not quite! But almost.

[glossing]

*Almost* there, though! I'm pulling for them. Not.

[caiusmajor]

Well. If LJ is serious, than a good two/thirds of DC fandom is banned.

*sighs*

[glossing]

Yup.

[glossing]

zOMG ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.

*mwah*