Shame on Livejournal for kowtowing to the Purity Police. Don't forget to ban Romeo and Juliet and Lolita.If you don't like it, don't read it. Nobody is making you.
I will not stand for this kind of censorship and witch hunting. If it contin ues I will boycott LJ/Six Apart and all of it's partners and advertisers. I will encourage everyone I know or come in contact with to do so as well.
Written word is not against the law and most of these communities are friends locked. The internet is not a nanny and people are themselves responsible for their own children. I understand the pressure on livejournal has been immense and that it was Six Apart that finally made the decision after advertisers started pulling out. Once again proof that money means more than our rights? Corporations hold the power over the law. I for one do not approve.
It becomes a complete farce when even literature-discussion communities can be deleted. Let's hope she didn't screw up any 'real' pedophile investigations in the process of carrying out this 'noisy' little stunt.
Yes, fighting paedophiles is the only right thing to do but doing it this way? Not so good.Next time, do your research better and leave out the innocent who this time got caught in the crossfire.
I wasn't deleted, but I find the deletions to be bullsh!t. they should be going after the real crooks, and investigate all claims of criminal activity BEFORE they delete.
I've been on LJ under various usernames since 2001, but I've just closed my paid account (Qu_Marsh) on LJ and I won't be giving LJ any more money until I have assurance that LiveJournal and Six Apart will treat its users fairly. Why keep an account in a community where my account is subject to termination for any arbitrary reason, whether I've actually done anything wrong or not?
commerce meets self-appointed activists. this is NOT the way to catch cyber-predators! the only victims are the survivors of these crimes and fandom-members.
This is ridiculous. Fanfiction writers - in fact writers of ANY KIND use LJ to express themselves. Any and EVERY thing that we write has a disclaimer saying
I believe the way they are doing this is the worst way as it is extremely easy to find the *real* over-the-top explicit communities and journals very easily *without* deleting the innocent ones.
I'm not necessarily a current member of any of these communities specifically, but I do support their cause and ask that they be allowed to remain on LJ and be protected from permanent suspension again, because if parents at home are doing their jobs, we wouldn't need this anyway.
There's a big difference between fanfiction and real-life stories. Fanfic writers almost ALWAYS make this difference very clear - why can't WFI see that?
