Oh, internet crazies ♥

[innerbrat]

sms_to_lj? has for many years provided a vaguely buggy way for Britons to update LJ through the medium of text message. I haven't felt the need to use it since the last time it stopped working for me, but I kept the community friended just in case I felt the need again.

Yesterday the maintainer posted this, the original text of which read:

Please note:

Comments

[sumerianhaze]

No - just on the internet. Keeps them off the streets and stops them setting fire to policemen's trousers.

[atalantapendrag]

LOL, what?

[matgb]

Ah, the joys of people who haven't before encountered fridgemagnet. Revolutionary socialists with an actual sense of humour should be encouraged I find.

[gramarye1971]

So is this the part where we all start singing 'The Red Flag'?

[kierthos]

So, I'm confused. Not that this is unusual in and of itself....

Let me see if I understand this. Yon community maintainer/dim light-bulb is dead-set against the heavy-handed methods of various trade unions, so in a heavy-handed response (no! it's not ironic! it's the internet!), has decided to ban trade union members from the community, apparently with his massive psychic powers and such.

Amirite?

[innerbrat]

That's about the shape of it.