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tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-05-30 05:56 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-05-30 05:56 pm
Suspension hysteria--what's probably going on.
NB for everyone with their panties in a twist over Deletegate, or considering friends-locking adult content on their journals because of it: read this post. LJ's suspension of all those journals has nothing to do with fandom--fandom journals, as well as the completely legitimate literary discussion groups and abuse survivor communities that also got suspended, are collateral damage. In fact, as far as I can see it, the whole debacle is caused by LJ going into bizarre contortions to avoid suspending, deleting, warning, or otherwise interfering with people based on content, because once they start doing that they'll be liable for all the questionably-legal content that gets posted here. So unless (until?) the shitstorm takes an unexpected turn, there's very little risk of being suspended over anything you write in your journal. Interest lists and profiles in general are at risk, but not anything you've written.
Does it suck being treated as collateral damage? Hell yes. But this isn't about us, and the Copyright Nazis aren't going to come knocking at your door.
Until there's more communication between LJ and the people who got suspended, I'm not going to say the post I linked to has an 100% accurate assessment of the situation--but it tallies with the impressions I formed independently based on what both LJ Abuse and WFI have said, and it's a pretty sound analysis of the sticky place LJ is in legally. It's a pretty safe bet that none of the ban-happy parties give a shit about fandom, that this is not a censorship or copyright issue, and that LJ would have been happy to keep your shota Weasleycest porn if its arm hadn't been twisted on completely different issues.
(If you've heard nothing of Deletegate,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom has been awash in links on it for the past few days, and you can probably find a good recap there.)
Edit: Oh look, it's hit the news, and a SixApart rep was willing to talk to reporters but not to the pissed-off LJ users. And claimed that this was motivated not only by legal issues but by SA deciding to be the taste police and baninate journals they thought were "inappropriate." WTF? My first instinct is that he's talking out his ass, but this does not bode well for LJ's side of the story.
Does it suck being treated as collateral damage? Hell yes. But this isn't about us, and the Copyright Nazis aren't going to come knocking at your door.
Until there's more communication between LJ and the people who got suspended, I'm not going to say the post I linked to has an 100% accurate assessment of the situation--but it tallies with the impressions I formed independently based on what both LJ Abuse and WFI have said, and it's a pretty sound analysis of the sticky place LJ is in legally. It's a pretty safe bet that none of the ban-happy parties give a shit about fandom, that this is not a censorship or copyright issue, and that LJ would have been happy to keep your shota Weasleycest porn if its arm hadn't been twisted on completely different issues.
(If you've heard nothing of Deletegate,
metafandom has been awash in links on it for the past few days, and you can probably find a good recap there.)Edit: Oh look, it's hit the news, and a SixApart rep was willing to talk to reporters but not to the pissed-off LJ users. And claimed that this was motivated not only by legal issues but by SA deciding to be the taste police and baninate journals they thought were "inappropriate." WTF? My first instinct is that he's talking out his ass, but this does not bode well for LJ's side of the story.