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Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:03This is ridiculous.
I'm all for getting paedophile comms shut down (although have they actually been working with the police on this? Surely it would be better to track what they're doing so that the police can actually find the individuals who might be abusing kids and lock them up?) but a blanket deletion of both personal and fic journals and communities that have nothing to do with paedophilia merely because of inclusion of certain key words in their interest lists is ridiculous.
What really pisses me off is that judging by the wording of some of the emails they have sent, they will not even reconsider reinstating deleted journals (including fic journals, abuse self-help communities, personal journals written by abuse survivors, etc). And the way they have handled all this is completely inept. SixApart's boss can't be bothered to answer LJ users' questions, but will talk to journalists:
""Our decision here was not based on pure legal issues," countered Six Apart's Berkowitz. "It was based on what community we want to build and what we think is appropriate within that community and what's not. We have an awful broad range of discussions and topics and other things going on in LiveJournal, and we encourage other broad-ranging conversations on all sorts of topics. This was a specific case where we felt there was not a reason (for these journals to stay online)."
Berkowitz said the company would "obviously apologize" to anyone whose journal was deleted in error but added: "That's going to be a very small minority of the sites. I would be shocked if it's more than a dozen." "
*seethes*
Go and join![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandom_counts to give them some idea of how sizeable a chunk of their customers are fandom-related.
Complaints on LJ News' latest post at 72 pages and counting ...
I'm all for getting paedophile comms shut down (although have they actually been working with the police on this? Surely it would be better to track what they're doing so that the police can actually find the individuals who might be abusing kids and lock them up?) but a blanket deletion of both personal and fic journals and communities that have nothing to do with paedophilia merely because of inclusion of certain key words in their interest lists is ridiculous.
What really pisses me off is that judging by the wording of some of the emails they have sent, they will not even reconsider reinstating deleted journals (including fic journals, abuse self-help communities, personal journals written by abuse survivors, etc). And the way they have handled all this is completely inept. SixApart's boss can't be bothered to answer LJ users' questions, but will talk to journalists:
""Our decision here was not based on pure legal issues," countered Six Apart's Berkowitz. "It was based on what community we want to build and what we think is appropriate within that community and what's not. We have an awful broad range of discussions and topics and other things going on in LiveJournal, and we encourage other broad-ranging conversations on all sorts of topics. This was a specific case where we felt there was not a reason (for these journals to stay online)."
Berkowitz said the company would "obviously apologize" to anyone whose journal was deleted in error but added: "That's going to be a very small minority of the sites. I would be shocked if it's more than a dozen." "
*seethes*
Go and join
fandom_counts to give them some idea of how sizeable a chunk of their customers are fandom-related.Complaints on LJ News' latest post at 72 pages and counting ...
