My two cents
My thoughts on the matter:
If a company is going to do a widespread purge like this, that company has an obligation to investigate what they're purging. Are the things getting deleted legitimate threats? Are they accurate, nonfictional accounts that could have serious real life repercussions, or are they simply a lonely man's fantasies, or a ( Read more... )
If a company is going to do a widespread purge like this, that company has an obligation to investigate what they're purging. Are the things getting deleted legitimate threats? Are they accurate, nonfictional accounts that could have serious real life repercussions, or are they simply a lonely man's fantasies, or a ( Read more... )
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What wigs me out is this group that stirred the pot on the whole mess, Warriors for Innocence. I've been reading the different updates across LJ about it, and they seem a little...shady. I'm sure they think they're doing the right thing to protect kids, but Jesus christ, if they don't think that actual pedophiles are not smart enough to edit their interests list (if they were that blatant in the first place) or create new journals...what exactly did they accomplish here, besides sending all of LJ fandom into a giant hysteria? I'm not even into any of the "questionable content" being targeted (...I don't even like slash) but this raises my hackles because it's a very, very slippery slope. What's next? Homoerotica? Erotica in general? Where do we draw the line, considering NONE of those fanfic/RPG journals were guilty of any crime. This forced sanitization of the Internet, all with presumably good intentions, is resulting in abridgment of free expression, which was ostensibly the greatest ( ... )
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