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elfsWell, it looks like there's another blogquake going on. Six Apart's crack legal team has succumbed to vigilante pressure from the outside world and is now tracking down every LJ in which the user has one of the following (or a synonym for one of the following) in the "Interests" list: child abuse, human sacrifice, kidnapping, killing, murder, paedophiles, paedophilia, rape, and beating people up.
I doubt they're going to come for me; none of those particularly float my boat. But it does mean that Six Apart is now taking an active, editorial interest in what you write, which is different from LJAbuse's previous interest only in what you do. Six Apart's abuse policy has now become editorial: your blog is no longer your own, but is now jointly managed by you and the legal team of Six Apart, which may decide without warning to terminate your account.
The thing that irritates me most is that they're going after fiction writers. Despite the disclaimer from LJ abuse that they're not going after fictional accounts, it's become clear from the ongoing discussion that some user accounts have disappeared because they were the fictional journals of fictional, villainous characters.
Sigh. The only question is: when will the Six Apart legal team get its act together and start going after all "questionable" content? I mean, I have "sadomasochism" as an interest (no, really!?) and that's illegal in Massachusetts.
If LJ becomes a Disney Gated Community, I'm so outta here, whether they push me or not.
I doubt they're going to come for me; none of those particularly float my boat. But it does mean that Six Apart is now taking an active, editorial interest in what you write, which is different from LJAbuse's previous interest only in what you do. Six Apart's abuse policy has now become editorial: your blog is no longer your own, but is now jointly managed by you and the legal team of Six Apart, which may decide without warning to terminate your account.
The thing that irritates me most is that they're going after fiction writers. Despite the disclaimer from LJ abuse that they're not going after fictional accounts, it's become clear from the ongoing discussion that some user accounts have disappeared because they were the fictional journals of fictional, villainous characters.
Sigh. The only question is: when will the Six Apart legal team get its act together and start going after all "questionable" content? I mean, I have "sadomasochism" as an interest (no, really!?) and that's illegal in Massachusetts.
If LJ becomes a Disney Gated Community, I'm so outta here, whether they push me or not.
Isn't this a bad move for them
Date: 2007-05-31 04:47 pm (UTC)Respectfully,
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