Comments on: LiveJournal apologizes as users revolt

By: Leonard Erickson

Leonard Erickson — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:29:01 +0000

Actually, users were told that they were not going to be *allowed* to make those profile changes because concerns about legal liability. Several of the email responses saying that were posted by the folks who got them.

Said letters also contained grossly inaccurate statements regarding the legality of a number of things.

By: Kei

Kei — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:28:40 +0000

Most of these people ARE passionate about those things. It’s not “all about the porn” as people uninvolved in this issue seem to think. A lot of the journals that were mistakenly suspended (”permanent suspension” was the term used when the owners asked LJ Abuse what was going on. They actually WERE told that they would not get their journals back) were NOT blogs full of seedy child pornography, rather they were about the thoughts and ideas of a large group of people who are generally very savvy on world issues. They were places where people could come together to explore all sorts of things – yes, including some “taboo” topics as incest, rape, etc. However, if we refuse to talk about those things, it gives them power, and talking about them is NOT the same as supporting them. Unfortunately most people who diss fandom don’t have any sort of idea what it’s really about.

By: nleseul

nleseul — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:22:10 +0000

Maybe if people could make as much of an impact on those other things as they can on LiveJournal, they would be.

But every victory, no matter how small it looks in perspective, is worth fighting for. Free society is preserved by thousands of small victories like this.

By: Samejima Mamimi

Samejima Mamimi — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:40:01 +0000

If only people were as passionate about war, world hunger, poverty, incurable diseases, and general mistreatment of one human by another, as they are about something trivial that happened on LiveJournal…