I am deeply concerned about these people stalking our journals and making value judgements on our blogs.The proper authorities know where to look to protect our children. Vigilantes just end up hurting everyone.
Only a minority involved? NEVER forget your minority customers!! Big rule in business that I was taught. Really disappointed in how badly this was handled.
While I approve of actions designed to prohibit actual pedophilia, generalized actions that strike at fiction-oriented communities or even interest groups designed to discuss issues centered around controversial topics (such as the journal designed to discuss the novel
This is incredibly disappointing. You might as well just suck out all creativity and passion from the world and we can all sit around staring at eachother like braindead vegetables. I understand deleting journals and communities promoting or discussing real-life criminal offenses but FICTION!?! Do you even know what the word means? NOT. REAL. Why don't you start burning books, films, and music while you're at it?
My lj hasn't been affected, but I do support those who have been affected. Fiction is fiction and we shouldn't let the right-wing nazis who have no concept of the difference between reality and fantasy burn our ljs. LiveJournal needs to do the right thing and not be bullied by hate spewing fanatics.
Thankfully I am not one of the many people who have had their communties or journal deleted, but I am siging this in support to those who have been wronged and I also sign this in hope that this madness will end soon.
I will not allow someone who simply doesn't like what I say to silence me. And I will not support any group that bends to their will just because they nag a lot.
You don't know how many people you've hurt by doing this. The predators got to hide in time while people completely innocent had years of journaling deleted.
The fact that a web journal community which prides itself on offering freedom would cave to censorship in such an ill-judged manner, through blanket deletions without consideration of context or situation, is just sad.
I was not affected by this mass deletions but this is blatant abuse of rights and not a good way to handle a business that we, the paying customers, and not your advertisers, make successful.
I will not be renewing my Paid accounts and I have many. AND I am not involved in ANY that were deleted, legal or otherwise. It is just absurd to take away anyones freedom of speech. Did WFI? take into account that if they left the truly bad ones UP they could track the REAL BAD GUYS EASIER? NO I DIDN'T THINK SO.
I have trouble believing a company as enlightened as LiveJournal would allow the actions of a rogue,viligiante group to influence its policy. I have trouble believing indescrimately deleting journals based on interests was the correct method to use. And to delete journals that deal with these concepts in fiction, a totally legal practice, is assinine.
This mass deletion is pure censorship. If LJ had a problem with these kinds of communities, they should have said so in their Terms of Service, instead of making up the rules afterward like a bunch of Nazis.
Go read 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold. Great example of a PUBLISHED novel that deals with the rape and murder of an under-age girl. Lo and behold, it was vital to the plot, but not even close to being the main idea behind the book. Fanfiction has done the same.
Though my account was not suspended, I feel I should support this petition. I commend the LJ admins for removing the pedo-blogs from their community, but I sincerely believe they should have screened each blog first instead of mass-deleting them, along with the accounts of innocent bloggers in the process. It is like eliminating victims of pedophiles along with the monsters just because they are associated with the monstrosity. It really is unfair.
How could this be allowed to happen. I don't write or read what is posted in these communities however, I have friends who do and they are responsible and mature people. They are also imaginative and creative people. Lift the bans. If you don't like it ... don't look.
