freedom of speech, freedom of interest! if you really want to protect children so much, why not start with teaching them what is fiction and what is real so they wouldn't be corrupted by mere words?
Boo, LJ...just boo. You caved because some shadow group threatened to make it hard for money to come your way...and now money is going away for your screwup.
Stop fighting against things you don't know or understand for the only reason you don't know or understand them. Stop searching for witches. And stop being all this hypocrite. There's the hell out there, and you spend your time shooting on fanfictions. Isn't this utterly ridiculous?
I understand your need to protect children but you must also understand our right to free speech. As long as we are not solicting children or making it easy for them to have access to the adult content by not password protecting our works then leave us alone. You don't like the things we write then don't read it!!!!!
Livejournal performed a huge disservice to the innocent who were caught up in this Marxist witchhunt for all things Bad and Terrible. They are a private company and they may do whatever they like to their website. However, their actions impact others, many of them paying customers, who will now reexamine whether putting money into a community website like Livejournal is wise, when huge mistakes like this are made and impact thousands of people who were simply interested in a place to blog.
How dare LJ errode our freedoms of speech and expression! This whole affair has been a fiasco from begining to end.LJ is a large group and should have thought this through properly instead of instaging a knee jerk reaction. Shame on LJ.
livejournal's persecution of opinions and creativity is disguisting.Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither - Benjamin Franklin.
This is total BS, gtfo of our communities. If you don't like it, don't look. If you DO like it, f-lock it!Censorship is not the way to handle this situation.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be pukin' my guts out if I read about two guys having sex in a newspaper. But if I read about two guys having sex in someone's stories, I would appreciate his/her story. I have friends who write slash fics, but I don't have any problem with that. What they write is what they write.
I, and a lot of the livejournal users, are big proponents of free speech. In fact, that is why we chose to go to livejournal for our blogging needs. For as long as it has been around, Livejournal has allowed networking and communities spring up and flourish, with generally only harassment issues causing deletions. Actually,Livejournal has allowed many people find their voice in a censored world. With this being true, I was greatly offended by the mass deletions on Livejournal yesterday. While I understand that it is wise to delete communities encouraging pedophilia and other Illegal sexual activities, There is a vast difference between that and what happened the other day. In their rush, the Livejournal team indiscriminately deleted RPG players, Art comms, literary comms reading the novel Lolita, and even Pedophilia/incest survivor communities. Were they the government, this would be a case that would rock the country's legal system. As it is, this is on an independent, for-profit site. Thus,only the voice that Livejournal originally granted us can save us all from irrational censorship. I've been on livejournal for 5 or6 years now. I've found that livejournal is a positive and flexible space, and it is not one that I will give up easily. I, and my fellow users, will fight back for the place we love until the last stand.
