Livejournal fandom gets trashed

[matgb]

Pretty sure that most of those involved in fandom and RPGs will already be aware of this, but for those not...

LJ Abuse has shut down a massive pile of journals for simply listing illegal interests in their profiles, and they won't unsuspend, at all:

In particular, the interest that you had listed on your profile that qualify as expressing interest in, soliciting, or encouraging illegal activity was "incest".

Our legal counsel advises us that it would increase LiveJournal's liability if we were to allow your journal to be unsuspended for you to delete the illegal interests from your profile. This is because if someone were to remove the illegal interests from his or her profile, but was in fact using LiveJournal to coordinate, solicit, or participate in illegal activity, LiveJournal would most likely be considered to have foreknowledge of that activity and thus become liable.

A group of people called "Warriors for Innocence" have been trawling interest searches, and doing so publicly, liz_marcs has been in contact with them and received a full reply. no_lj_ads has a link summary as does catrinella.

Ultimately; the lunatics running this "protection" campaign have been doing so publicly, and given we know that the online abuser community is going to be paying attention, this means tat fandom has been TOS'd but the real abusers will have locked down their interests and will now be even harder to find if they're out there. As shaysdays quotes approvingly: If you have a fic community that uses keywords that might offend these little crusaders, take the keywords off temporarily so that your comm can't be found for a while. Becausee some of the accounts shut down are 'bad guy' RPG characters. Some of them are simply goths who like 'loli'. One is a Nabukov reading group. Yes, they're being that unsubtle.

Just think of the children?  Yeah, right, doing more harm than good isn't helping anyone.

Comments

[matgb]

Edited the post, knew it wasn't you, but can't put huge numbers of links up without my brain 'sploding.

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

It's okay. While I'm torn for where they're coming from (honestly I thought about launching an anti-anti-gay campaign on the same kind of grounds) I agree with the people I know - that there is not accountability for what they appear to be doing.

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

PS- and this is totally me, but....

I KNOW THE INTERNETTS ENUF TO BE ALL CAPLOKS. IS NOT OK FOR UNSOOPVERVISED KIDZ! (insert cat here)

Seriously- both my kids are not allowed alone in the rooom on the web up to when they can buy their own computer unless one of their parents is around. I r speaking badly, but really, you earn your time.

And they're not allowed to meet someone (granted, this is totally futuristic) that they haven't met unless a parent, trusted friend, or family member is driving them. Which will totally work, I know. But a mom can dream.

Grr. I really don't mind folks trapping pedophiles in a web of illegal lies, but this is a web of wtf, really?