LJ starts a mass deletion

[figsauce]

Idiots.

I'm aghast at how readily LJ bowed to pressure and how cavalier WFI is about how "oh, we just a got a whole bunch of incest survivors' support communities and legit literary groups deleted but we're not really responsible and we maybe might have nabbed one or two pedophiles in the process, yay!" Why does WFI switch from reporting pedo sites

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[sodabrew]

Seriously, that site gives all the angry love to LiveJournal. There are bigger fish to fry at this point. The mass media gave MySpace lots of attention already, primarily in the form of warnings to adults to talk to their kids. MySpace does have a communities/groups structure similar to LJ's, and I wonder what evils lurk there.

As for the LJ Abuse response, I agree with LJ. People committing these actions and using the site to lure victims is a major problem, but talking about the fucked up things in your head is not a problem. MySpace has lots of the former, all happening as private messages, while LJ has the latter, happening as friends-only community postings.

Well, anyways, Jesus said thinking bad things is as bad as doing them, so these people are Doing The Right Thing Because That's What Jesus Would Do (TM).

[doomydarkdoom]

I heard something on the news about MySpace getting cleaned out, or an impending cleanout... so I think it is happening/will happen to all the journaling sites.

Scary how you can't expect to keep your private thoughts and writings private. I mean the Internet really isn't the place for something you can't risk losing anyway, but you know, there IS a certain expectation of professionalism and protection, ESPECIALLY for paid members and locked accounts. If the account is friends-only or something, why are they able to go in and delete it?

This is fucked up, yo.

[figsauce]

They baleeted basically anything with "incest" or "pedophilia" or other words in the interests list, regardless of actual content.

Irony of WFI's "think of the advertising revenue you'll lose!" scare tactics is that people are downgrading their accounts to Basic in protest.