I offer my support of this petition by proudly saying that I am a fanfiction writer and I find this wholesale vilification of thematic writing to be underhanded, controlling and unnecessary.
It is, of course, your server, which you may use as you like. But it is also my money, and I am more than ready to vote with it, and go to another, less lazy, less judgmental, and less hidebound journaling site. The ball is in your court.
as a victim of child molestation by more than one person (one that would be classified as incest, one not), i use fiction as an outlet to cope with my personal tragedy when I am feeling overwhelmed. To have that outlet taken from me, in a misguided attempt to crack down on the perpetrators of these atrocities, is more damaging than I can possibly say. I do not appreciate being classed with the same people who have done this to me. I am not a predator, and I take great offense at being classified as one.
We aren't bad people, and we clearly state the IF YOU ARE UNDERAGE DON'T READ THIS. It's THEIR choice to read it, we can't be responsible for that, and it's ridiculous to assume you can just take our right to free speech from us.
You have no idea of who you are messing with.There is fantasy.We write it with NO FEAR!Then there is reality...The reality is, if ANY of US caught wind of a REAL Pedophile? Well... it wouldn't be pretty. We would hunt the perv down and CRUSH HIM.Believe me, We are not without our own skills and POWER.
By banning the communities, you have only driven the *real* perps underground. And taken a lot of innocent people's freedom of expression away without even giving them the opportunity to react to your allegations.
I never thought I would see the day when I would have to fear expressing myself on the internet. It's the world wide web; get over yourselves, WFI, and fight crime where it is actually occurring. There is a strong difference between someone who expresses themselves through writing and art, and someone who wants to rape a child, or anything of that sort. You are being ridiculous, and not achieving anything more than angering mass hordes. Good job, if your intent is persecuting innocent individuals and artists. I find your infringement of my personal freedoms to be offensive and dangerous. Does this mean I can ask LJ to delete you? Go take the time and energy you are wasting on this, and do something USEFUL.
I genuinely wanted to buy a paid account at one point in appreciation of the admin folks, but so much have changed since then that I doubt I ever will again. If we, the users have become less important to 6A than the advertisers and outsider 'vigilante' groups, then they can expect no sincere support from me.
I was the maintainer for sbrb_blackcest, a community to house Sirius/Regulus fic, art, and discussion. I hardly see how I am exploiting people who have both died and only exist in books to begin with.
Where are you going to draw a line, livejournal? Who makes you judge and jury over whether or not what people want to read as fiction is morally correct? Historically, this has NEVER ENDED WELL.
It's not funny anymore when genuine, just-for-fun fiction communities get suspended along with pedo communities (which I applaud, the former, not so much). LJ bowed too fast to SixApart/its advert companies/WFI that it left a very bad taste in my mouth. I won't be renewing my paid account, that's for sure. Thank God that there's still GJ...
There have been several genuine pedophilic communities deleted-- this is good. However, anything written in a purely fictional context (with disclaimers and all) is literary and should be regarded as such. Frankly, the fact that a discussion community about Lolita was banned is borderline disgusting, and banning adult Harry Potter fanfiction communities is just ridiculous. It. Is. Fiction. Its called fanfiction for a reason.
I am outraged that LJ is deleting/suspending so many journals/communities without even checking their content or purpose. Many survivors of child abuse have had their LJs suspended for having
I'm not a reader of incest, rape, or anything of that nature, but I support anyone who wants to read/write it. Just because it isn't my cup of tea doesn't mean I want to see it banned from anyone else. I'm sick of this ridiculous censorship. When are they going to stop?
Personally a fan of fandom incest and the ocassional yuri. Livejournal wants to keep corruption from children? That's not their job; it's the parents' job, and it's the parents who should realize that even if LJ doesn't have it, somewhere else will. Rule 34, amirite? (Also, I kind of thought that this was the point of F-locking community posts. Excuse me for thinking it was obvious, LJ.)
I'm certainly never buying a paid account if this is the way your paying customers are being treated. Bowing to someone who, as far as I know, has no legal right to pressure you on this, and then mass deleting totally innocent people? MySpace has never looked so attractive.
If I had known Livejournal would censor me and my friends because one bone-headed group of people can't wrap their heads around things that lie beyond their limited scope of experiences, I wouldn't have paid for one year of paid time. I am disgusted by the unfair treatment of Livejournal's users and the suspension of my *right* to free speech. Fanfic communities like p0rnish_pixies in no way promote illegal activities or corrupt children simply because they list incest or underage as their interests. Those are fanfic categrories, not a political agenda!Fact is that these suspensions destroy a lot of work and effort. Writing fanfic is not just a hobby - many writers use fanfic to express themselves and to work through their own personal issues in a way that is most therapeutic and least traumatic for them. Deleting their efforts is almost a personal attack on everyone in these communities.I can only repeat: I am disgusted.~ sera
My account 'onewavebreaks' was permanently suspended for listing 'child-molestation, incest, and nepiophilia' as interests. I listed those three things because I was molested as a child. Anyone who knows me knows that I have been molested and raped in the past and that I support crime fighters and organised groups who work with law enforcement to catch paedophiles and imprison them. Clearly, my journal was suspended and a year's worth of work on my profile and other aspects of my journal are gone because of this ridiculousness. Did anyone even bother to look at my journal and see who I am? Did anyone even bother to realise that I had recently been writing about my rape six years ago? No? Didn't think so. This is disgusting and unjust and something I will never forgive.
I have used livejournal for a number of years, under various user names.This is infringing upon our freeom of speech, and is generally ridiculous - the questionable material in the above-mentioned Harry Potter community was always quite staunchly an over-18 community, and always had
