Removed the incriminating tag from my interest list and am now staying up later than I probably should in order to watch it unfold. As for thoughts...
It's ugly, but I can't say I'm shocked. Looking at the website of the "warriors" (lots of pretty waifish pictures), they look like your average group of fanatics out to save the children, literally. They seem to me to be very little professional and very much about the rage, so I don't sympathize much with their quest, noble as it might be. And as long as LJ is deleting reported journals and comms that theoretically could serve as contact points for child abuse, I can't say they're the one I'm upset with yet.
It is creepy, however, that fandom is targeted. I mostly assume that these people know little of fandom except as "some pervs writing Harry Potter porn", but if they were to figure out how widespread shota, incest and porn involving underaged characters is, it's possible they could start targeting the larger sites. With the whole Fanlib debacle that has been going on lately, that could be a bit more attention than I think the community needs.
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It's ugly, but I can't say I'm shocked. Looking at the website of the "warriors" (lots of pretty waifish pictures), they look like your average group of fanatics out to save the children, literally. They seem to me to be very little professional and very much about the rage, so I don't sympathize much with their quest, noble as it might be. And as long as LJ is deleting reported journals and comms that theoretically could serve as contact points for child abuse, I can't say they're the one I'm upset with yet.
It is creepy, however, that fandom is targeted. I mostly assume that these people know little of fandom except as "some pervs writing Harry Potter porn", but if they were to figure out how widespread shota, incest and porn involving underaged characters is, it's possible they could start targeting the larger sites. With the whole Fanlib debacle that has been going on lately, that could be a bit more attention than I think the community needs.