First they came for the Potterites

[sabotabby]

[Poll #1035804]

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Pro-Ana is in the clear. they've 'clarified' that too, I think. it's not "harmful" or illegal.

[sabotabby]

They actually claimed that encouraging teenage girls to starve themselves to death isn't harmful?

I boggle at the stupid.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Um....remind me what pro-ana means? I just got a grasp on M-Preg.

[sabotabby]

I found one M-Preg fic that I liked, which means that I can no longer claim that M-Preg is the worst kind of fanfic ever. I wasn't sure if I should be disappointed in myself, or impressed that the author made it work.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, I just figured it out from your comment above. Oh dear.

[sabotabby]

Yeah. It makes me sad.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I really want to be around when they round up the furries and ship them off to the Gulag. That would be a sight to see.

[sabotabby]

FURSECUTION!

How sad is it that there is internetcourt but no internetgulag?

rising dander

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

Blah blah sexual deviants blah blah hegemonic culture yadda puritanism blah transhumanism blah fringe-status balkanization - look, I'm just out of energy today. Pretend I posted the crying fox in front of a rainbow flag, will ya?

[ironed_orchid]

When barak25 posted teh first news post about strikethrough, this was my favourite comments thread: can you ban furries next?.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

what did I miss? what's goin on???

[sabotabby]

Repeat of the last time they banninated people for posting pictures and stories of Harry Potter getting it on with Snape.

[peterbilt-47.livejournal.com]

Uh, wait, what the shit? It's happening again? What's going on?

[sabotabby]

See above. Same thing, smaller scale, stupider 6A response.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's any real likelihood of most people being banned for radical politics/kink etc. From what I can gather it was only a couple of people this time and they were sailing real close to the wind at best in terms of stuff that's actually illegal in US law - namely explicit Snape-Harry drawings and the like.

The problem is, as liz_marcs has very eloquently pointed out, that they have just totally failed to clarify exactly what is and what is not acceptable, and they wouldn't know 'due process' or 'good customer service' if it bit them up the ass. But my guess is they're not going to go for another mass strike-bold-out. But you can never tell, so if you think you go anywhere near what might one day become an invisible line, it's probably better to have a back-up journal just in case.

[sabotabby]

If they were a competently-run company, I wouldn't be worried. But they aren't. And my knowledge of California law is a bit lacking, seeing as I don't live in California.

I recently removed an interest that would have gotten me into trouble under the new not-very-clear rules, had someone with a grudge decided to report me. I don't like it.

[realcdaae.livejournal.com]

My answer to the last question: whatever group someone makes a concerted effort to report. Like the whole breastfeeding icon thing, which would never have come up as an issue if someone hadn't reported a bunch of them as a joke.

[sabotabby]

I still can't believe the whole breastfeeding thing. My god.

[limyaael.livejournal.com]

I think no one's required to make a journal anywhere else. There are several people on my F-list uncomfortable with InsaneJournal's name and mascot, and several others who are extremely irritated about the "migration" because they just don't have enough time to keep up with multiple feeds. If you do have the time (and want to read f-locked entries on RSS feeds from other journal services), I think it's worth the while, but everyone's situation in this is unique.

And I think they'll go for pro-ana next because someone just reported them.

[sabotabby]

I'm uncomfortable with the idea of reporting communities/users; LJ Abuse has never particularly had a grasp of nuance. I mean, the whole Boobgate thing started over people reporting breastfeeding icons to prove a point that another icon wasn't obscene. It'll be interesting to see if they do go after pro-ana, though.

A migration would work if everyone went to the same place. But I don't know if that's even possible.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Is Blogspot functionally pretty different from LJ? Because all the other journals I have heard of have these incredibly moronic names. For example, "Greatest Journal" sounds ridiculously egoistic.

[sabotabby]

Blogspot doesn't have the community element. No actual communities, no friends lists, no locked posts or different levels of security. Otherwise I'd just do all my blogging on PunkAss, but I like LJ's interactive structure.

The only LJ-clone name I like is DeadJournal. If I set up an account there, it'd have to be for my zombie alter-ego.

[maechi.livejournal.com]

I'm not planning on leaving. I think they'll have to suspend me first. That said, I've set up an account on InsaneJournal just to cover that base (and to keep track of a few friends who seem to be serious about leaving).

I suggested that you set up an alternative mainly because I think it's safe to have a backup, given the current LJ climate & just for peace of mind.

[sabotabby]

Makes sense. I mean, I don't have any intention of leaving, nor do I think I'm likely to be suspended (I'm extremely careful about what I write for all sorts of other reasons), but it never hurts to have a backup.

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

I'm moving side_quests before I get to my "where My Little Ponies" come from joke. A website is under construction as we speak.

[sabotabby]

Where do My Little Ponies come from?

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

eh, just makes me gladder that i don't pay for it.

[sabotabby]

I'm addicted to icons. *sigh*

[elgordochico.livejournal.com]

I don't know if there is some kind of a curse over LJ, but all I've been hearing these days is bad news for LJ. First, it was the Potter censorship; then came news that Brad Fitzgerald is leaving the company--he was one of the original founders; then I heard that Six Apart is looking to be sold off. No one believes they can make money at LJ anymore. The old idealism is withering off. Now comes this so-called clarification, which only makes sense if you stop to think there are no Dateline reporters entrapping pro-ana activists. Sufficient public hysteria over a given issue seems to be enough justification for the admins to take out their cutting knives. Which sort of makes you think: even without becoming mainstream, they have adopted the tactics of traditional media outlets. It's enough to make me want to cut myself. :-P

[sabotabby]

It's shrinking too. I don't blame Brad for leaving; it's a total mess.

[elgordochico.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way, I forgot to add that if you ever plan to get an alternative journal, I hope it will be a vlog at this fine place:

http://godtube.com/

Do you think they will censor?

[sabotabby]

D'you think they'd let me perform a live chicken sacrifice?

[pluvka.livejournal.com]

who cares about fanfic, LJ supports anorexia and that's just fucking crazy. oh my god, i can't believe that shit.

[sabotabby]

They are deeply fucked up. I'm not sure that they support it so much as they don't understand it, but gah.

Clueless About Fur

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

I'm still in the dark about these furry things.
Do they not have them in Scotland, or is it something
for people under 40?

Re: Clueless About Fur

[sabotabby]

I don't know if they have them here either. If they do, I don't encounter them in my daily travels. But maybe I just don't go to the right bars.