Making Livejournal "safer"

Published May 30, 2007

We the users and authors in such communities as pornish_pixies and other banned communities as signed below, wish to inform the people who have attempted to besmirch our communities that we are not bad people.
We are not interested in corrupting children, or others sensitive to such material.
As we the undersigned understand, a Livejournal community that was based on Harry Potter fanfiction was banned because it contained "incest" in its interests.
We fail to understand how this was so violently misconstrued.
We are interested in fanfiction, which, by name, is fan-based fiction. Some of this fiction includes incest, pedophilia, and rape.
In some cases, writing these stories may very well be a therapeutic route, allowing those who have dealt with these horrors to better cope with their experiences.
In other cases, these aforementioned social taboos are used simply as plot devices, though rarely ever in a flippant or thoughtless manner.
We the undersigned wish to formally express our disappointment at Livejournal for banning these communities without consideration of the motivations of the people responsible for making complaints against them.

By Heidi Schaus

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