LiveJournal is suspending blogs with illegal activities listed in their Interests keywords

[duskpeterson]

Note to those reading this for the first time: The bottom of the post contains updates on the situation, which has been partially resolved, though problems still exist.

The moderator of a fan fiction community that was suspended has posted a letter from the LiveJournal staff in which the staff member states

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[duskpeterson]

If you go to any online bookstore, you'll see books classified by keywords that include references to illegal activities. As a friend of mine just pointed out, if LiveJournal is consistent about this, it will have to shut down all the crime fiction LJs that list "murder" as an interest.

[duskpeterson]

"The screeching of amateurs in email is not the basis on which a sensible company can make decisions."

Well, it can at least alert them to a fact that a lot of comms are being deleted that aren't related to the topics they were targetting. And my experience has been that, when companies don't hear the squeaky wheel, they tend not to investigate whether their actions are correct. :)

But yes, I agree that what's most needed in this situation is good legal advice.

[asexualdreamer]

a few communities are on this and there is one website tracking it off-site if you are interested please check out

innocence_jihad< and the website http://www.starchaserstudios.net

~jen

[duskpeterson]

"I would also say that claiming common cause with real pedophiles is not going to help fight the innocent users' case."

I don't see any sign of this, logophilos. Where are you seeing that?

[figliaperduta]

We're trying to get a count of all the people in fandom, in some form or another. Please, if you don't mind, help spread the word about fandom_counts--it's nothing but a census. Join and be counted--the LJ equivalent of 'How many mirrors are in your house?'

[duskpeterson]

I saw the notices at news and was simply delayed joining because of slowdowns in LiveJournal's service. I've joined now.

[figliaperduta]

In today's news: Fandom crashes ElJay!

...fanfic forthcoming, I promise. As soon as I decide which idea to write (first).

Did someone say fanfic?

[duskpeterson]

YAY!