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[briarwolf]

I haven't had the time to make it pretty, but if anyone cares anymore, my very negative opinion on the recent happenings is here: http://www.journalfen.net/users/briar/

Ah, at least with a JournalFen account, I can finally join F_W.

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[briarwolf]

[I may have to break this into multiple comments, because it seems folks that can't post long posts to their journals are having comment troubles also. Apologies in advance.]

I had also heard that some of the journals were suspended due to the use of the word incest, and I meant to cover that also, but the post was getting far too tl;dr as it was. Incest, between consenting adults anyway, is largely legal to the extent of my knowledge. Which makes suspending people for using it as an interest even more illogical, really. Also, as I saw elsewhere, when it comes to protecting children from incestuous abuse, suspending a bunch of journals isn't going to do a thing.

[briarwolf]

I thought the protection of children was based around targeting communities that were promoting actual child molestation out in the real world and they just cast their net too widely.

No, I agree that this may have been their original intent, and it was their execution of such a search that was lacking. However, considering there were several reports in many of the various comments to this where people had reported journals that were talking--even boasting--about this same thing, and were told that LiveJournal could do nothing about it, and those journals were still open during this, I'm not sure that they stayed on their original course.

[briarwolf]

Now, if they do want to stop those journals because as a business they don't want to be supporting that type of client, then I'm okay with that too. Actually, as a business, if they want to reject fandom, that is fine too

Oh, I agree wholeheartedly with these things. So long as they're *honest* about it. Don't want us posting this stuff here? Say so, don't randomly suspend people, particularly without giving a concrete reason. A lot of those suspended were only told that their journals and communities were promoting illegal activity, without specific reference to what illegal activity.