Now you all know I rarely rant...

[angeline831]

Ok, so I tried not to rant until I knew all the facts, but the more facts I see, the angrier I get. But first things first. All fandom people reading this: if you haven't already, go join fandom_counts. Remember how LJ boasted of its 13 million journals? Basically, fandom_counts is a tally of how many journals are used for fandom purposes. So go join with whatever fandom-

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[choatic_dreamer]

Jesus fucking Christ. LJ, WTF is this shit? (Eep, now your journal will get banned because I swore.) Longer comment later, comms to join, rant to post. PS. Subaru icon plz? I imagine he has a lot to say about this.

[crimson_clarity]

I'm not so sure I'd defend pornish_pixies in particular. They -did- have stories and art relating to pedophilia. And not just borderline, but clearly depicted sexual acts with children under the age of twelve - which I, personally, am fairly certain is too young to be having sex, no matter who or where you are in this era. It was also rather clear that this display was in no way condemned, but appreciated, admired, or even celebrated on the site. I'm sure this does conflict with Livejournal rules, and I respect their right to limit freedom of speech when it pertains to matters such as the promotion of pedophilia (whether or not you believe the journal as a whole was actually promoting pedophilia, there was certainly some bits that strongly suggested such). I do agree, however, that the situation wasn't handled as well as it could have been. For example, I'd argue that pornish_pixies was only violating any rules in a very small percent of its archive, which Livejournal could have demanded be fixed within a given time period or deletion

[angeline831]

The thing is, the pedophilia was fictional. That was the line. In fact, pornish_pixies got attacked before for that kind of thing, and LJ defended it because it was fiction. But there are several journals that depict actual pedophilia, as in people going out and molesting children. And were these people deleted? No. So why go after the clearly marked (with warnings as well) fiction instead of the real-life criminals? Especially since pornish_pixies is obviously based on HP fiction?