Comments | ifyouweremine: Witch-hunt 2007

ifyouweremine

Witch-hunt 2007

May 30, 2007 12:56

LiveJournal’s recent suspension of many comminutes and personal journals with “hot-button interests” seriously concerns me. It shows a complete lack of respect for its customers, and it is disgusting.

LiveJournal, by its own admission, suspended these people because their illegal interests might encourage people to commit illegal acts for which ( Read more... )

putting on my thinking cap, Strikethrough ’07

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ifyouweremine May 31 2007, 07:15:01 UTC

Exactly! People use LiveJournal with the understanding that our journal is OUR JOURNAL and as long as we're not doing anything illegal in it we'll be left alone. Now LiveJournal--or, more specifically, SixApart, under the direction of Warriors for Censorship--is coming in and suspending accounts that aren't doing anything wrong (except, perhaps, drawing the disapproving eye of a moral bloodhound).

WTF LJ?

nazwaz May 31 2007, 05:33:01 UTC

I followed you here to your journal from your response to my comment on news (wow, that was convoluted).

In any case, you put what I was trying to say very clearly. Fiction is not illegal, nor is it an expression of intent. I doubt very much that WfI or any watchdog group could successfully orchestrate prosecution against 6A/LJ for 99.9% of what they deleted in one fell swoop. It *is* censorship, it its most appalling form.

As we both say, if you are going to go on a TOS witch-hunt, it has to be ALL comms, not just the icky-omg SEX ones.

ifyouweremine May 31 2007, 07:11:03 UTC

Hey there, welcome to my journal!

I’m glad you liked my post. I was really only cobbling together some of the excellent points others have made with some of my own thoughts so I knew what I was going to say when I called SixApart. I’m not sure if the answering machine I talked to was persuaded or not (seriously, I didn’t get to talk to one real person in all of the times I called. SixApart was too cowardly to talk to its own customers even over the telephone. o_O).

It’s amazing how arbitrary this witch-hunt has been. I think the Warriors for Censorship just browsed along and said, oh, incest? Report it. Boys in panties? Report it. Raping babies? …No, that one’s fine. And LiveJournal was a good little lapdog and went around suspending accounts with those “hot-button keywords” WfI pointed them to.