Wordpress.com vs Child torture victims

[glockgal]

Wordpress.com vs Child Torture Victims
Yeah, I can't believe I had to write that out either. Seems WordPress.com in all its corporate neutrality has taken to taunting a survivor or child torture by arbitrarily giving and taking away her right to speak out...then blaming her for not following Wordpress.com's ToS. So classy and mature, innit?

waywardradish

Comments

[glockgal]

GAH I know. That it's so steadfastly ignored because I guess adopted kids are...what. Not news-worthy to the public? Gah, it's just.

[ani_bester]

Do you know if she'd be up to making her own website and jsut formatt it like a blog?

My server is owned by people in Hong Kong so I mean for once maybe skeevy chinese business practices might work for someone, becuase I think you could protest content on their servers until blue in the face and they really would not care.

But she'd basiclaly have to make a website from scratch :/

Ok just got caught up and I see she is moving the blog eslewhere, but yeah all I can say is international

Also, do you know the exact ToS she's accused of violating? I've been trying to find that and have not. I know I had an argument with geocities once, and it helped my letter knowning exactly what the accusation was (that and I jsut want to know. Defemation? WTF? She's stating facts, I can't think of anything else at all they could go afte rthat blog for!).

[glockgal]

She does have screenshots available for why Wordpress and the so-called therapists are on her case - basically, it's for slander and wording - which means she can't call people like Federici an 'attachment therapist'. So WP tells her to edit her posts and get rid of the 'inflammatory' terms...and then freezes her ability to post. *facepalm*

There's progress of her battle here. It's ridiculous because she's done NOTHING to violate the ToS, Wordpress is simply terrified of Federici and his stable of lawyers.

[ani_bester]

God that's such bull. If anything it would be her they lawyers would go after given that all such sites have happy legal "It's NOT OUR FAULT" out claused *sigh*

And if course they are not going after her because she jsut needs one pro bono lawyer and the publicity goes nuts and he knows he freaking as no case *sigh*

and thanks for that link. There were so many links in this I got a bit lost I guess ^^;;;

[reallycorking]

Oooh, go you, making this all easily repostable! ♥ I'll bet they're getting absolutely flooded with emails about this. :D \o/

[glockgal]

YESSSS, man, I love using the textarea coding for my devious needs. XD

[tallycola]

What the what! Jesus Christ! Email sent, from the email attached to my wordpress account. I'm buying my domain name for my teeny website through wordpress and now I feel like when the year is up I'll renew the name through a different service. My brother has offered in the past to host my stuff on his server so I can use the wordpress template and his server, I guess, as others as said. It just burns me that I already spent that money months ago!

WTF why are they even doing this.

ETA especially since, as far as I know, attachment therapy has been pretty widely discredited and is not considered legitimate by, well, anyone who isn't a douchebag. The book "The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog" talks about the negative effects of attachment therapy and it was written by the guy who treated the kids who were at the Davidian compound at Waco. I can't really see how a blog that says the same thing as this distinguished expert can be violating their TOS.

[glockgal]

YES - apparently there is a difference between the opensource (wordpress.org) and the blogging host (wordpress.com). The former won't be subject to WP.com's ToS - or their fearmongering.

It all boiled down to Radish's wording. Because she referred to Federici as an 'attachment therapist', he used that as some sort of method to attack her blog, citing she was being slanderous and making defamatory claims against him. Um. yeah. wp.com got bullied...and then turned around and started bullying her. *headsmack*

[swtalmnd]

You might want to make it clear that you're talking about Wordpress.COM, who is a blogging host, and not Wordpress.ORG, who are an open-source blogging platform. They get enough confusion without being blamed for this sort of evil.

[glockgal]

Ah-ha, good point.