Well we really screwed this one up…

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For reasons we are still trying to figure out what was supposed to be a well planned attempt to clean up a few journals that were violating LiveJournal's policies that protect minors turned into a total mess. I can only say I’m sorry, explain what we did wrong and what we are doing to correct these problems and explain what we were trying to do but

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[julieannie]

Why did you respond to this specific company after telling Perverted Justice for months that you could not control content?

Also, have you looked into how this might change your title as a common carrier?

[purple_chalk]

Oh, seconded. The noble cause behind this is all rather tainted by the actual triggers of the event, and this is not going to clear up too damn easy.

[oconel]

I'm really curious about the Perverted Justice issue, honestly.

[dreamt]

It's a website that unlike warriors for innocence does work with the police and is pretty damn reasonable.
their website is here. This is what they had to say about the "purge":

"So today, LJ decides to finally do something about the pedophile communities that had sprung up on their service. However, rather than listening to us months ago, they decided to just wipe out whole fields of communities whether they were related to those who advocate child rape or not. We're not quite sure who is running the show over at LJ, but until they state without condition that actual pedophile activists and those promoting child rape are disallowed from their service, we will continue to list them as an aggressive Corporate Sex Offender.

Apparently LiveJournal can't tell the difference between what a pedophile community is and a Harry Potter fan-fiction community despite being told months ago which is what."

[redxiv]

Perverted Justice is also unlike Warriors for Innocence in that it's not run by a white supremacist neo-Confederate who calls herself a member of the "Redneck Mafia" (as another LJ user discovered from some quick research).

But then, I suppose that goes hand in hand with the fact that Perverted Justice is a respectable group that works with the police to actually catch child predators, while WFI is just a pro-censorship crusade.

[charashi]

I agree with these questions.

[faeriechii]

I want to know about this too.

[skullduggery]

:D

[yamishenya]

Very important questions, I'd say - this issue is far from being cleared in a satisfactory manner.

[without_names]

oh yes, that's an interesting question.

[pw201]

Why did you respond to this specific company after telling Perverted Justice for months that you could not control content?

Signs point to "because the Dukes of Hazzard threatened our advertising revenue".

[julieannie]

From being on PJ, they were screencapping posts from pedos with the advertisers links on the same image and e-mailing it to the sponsors last year.

[pw201]

"They" being the Dukes? I'm wondering what suddenly provoked LJ into action, in that case, if the threats to advertisers had been going on for a while.

[julieannie]

Perverted Justice started this in December of 2006 officially. Here is an image that was used as the example for people from Perverted Justice to use:

[nikibee]

I would like to know this as well. In addition to the Perverted Justice example, I have heard of a few other individual lj users who have reported journals for pedophilia and have been told that without "proof," nothing could be done.

Why have all these reported cases been dismissed, but 500 journals have been suspended in the last few days for supposedly the same reasons?

[absofrickinlute]

I'd be one of those users. I reported comms to LJ frequently and got told it was protected under freedom of speech. It's all bullshit - LJ never gave a fuck till it was about money.