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silverthunder) wrote2007-05-29 04:32 pm
silverthunder) wrote2007-05-29 04:32 pm
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Hmm...
On recent LJ events...
Thoughts?
Edit: More
Apparently it's not only fandom journals that are being targeted here. Journals designed as help and support for survivors of child abuse were also deleted with no warning, and for no good reason. Thus far, no one is admitting to the error. LJ blames these "Warriors of Innocense" and they blame LJ.
I'd say they're all idiots. Even all the "Warriors of Innocense" did was complain that LJ was hosting 'content containing pedoplia and incest' on their site, all you've done by stirring up this fuss is alert the real predators and make it harder for more intelligent and better organized groups to catch them. Even if all LJ did was delete the journals that the "Warriors of Innocense" pointed out, they didn't bother to check and see exactly what was on those journals, and that's ridiculous.
It reminds me of the big fanfiction.net mess years ago, only worse. A huge portion of the journals deleted were completely innocent. Lolita fashion communities? RPG villain journals? Support groups for survivors?
That blows me away. And the worst part is that LJ is not willing to admit that they've made a mistake in deleting the journals. How can you justify that? Seriously.
Thoughts?
Edit: More
Apparently it's not only fandom journals that are being targeted here. Journals designed as help and support for survivors of child abuse were also deleted with no warning, and for no good reason. Thus far, no one is admitting to the error. LJ blames these "Warriors of Innocense" and they blame LJ.
I'd say they're all idiots. Even all the "Warriors of Innocense" did was complain that LJ was hosting 'content containing pedoplia and incest' on their site, all you've done by stirring up this fuss is alert the real predators and make it harder for more intelligent and better organized groups to catch them. Even if all LJ did was delete the journals that the "Warriors of Innocense" pointed out, they didn't bother to check and see exactly what was on those journals, and that's ridiculous.
It reminds me of the big fanfiction.net mess years ago, only worse. A huge portion of the journals deleted were completely innocent. Lolita fashion communities? RPG villain journals? Support groups for survivors?
That blows me away. And the worst part is that LJ is not willing to admit that they've made a mistake in deleting the journals. How can you justify that? Seriously.
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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.