As I've said in earlier comments, part of the problem is that 6A is a poorly run company that lack communication and organization. Once these internal issues are resolved, it will be much easier to have clear dialog with them concerning our issues. They are aware of this, but refuse to improve. (Part of the problem might be the CEO refusing to change. He sounds like a total asshole to me, and Anil Dash, the VP, told me that Barak made those comments to the press before he'd even been briefed on the problem. DAYS after this thing started and he still had no clue, but decided to irresponsibly mouth off, devaluing his customers, anyway.
This isn't the first time LJ has had problems with PR and communication. I think it's time to FORCE them to take some corporate responsiblity before the vicious cycle continues.
I just wanted to say, I'm beginning to believe that a 'Fandom Education' plan might be a very good thing. Now that fandom has been forced out of the proverbial closet over the last few months, it seems that there is a great deal of misunderstanding and misinformation about what fandom is, and what goes on here.
I hope the EFF thing is real and not name-dropping, because they're good guys and is the right step in terms of both treating your users right and dealing with actual threats to safety appropriately.
...your continued silence on the art and academic issue (that infamous "thinly veiled") comment, remains distressing. As is your unwillingness to make any sort of reassuring statement to your GLBTQ users, whose lives are criminalized by various jurisdictions. That you don't even have the cojones to at least make some sort of reassuring statement about the basic dignity of your
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I think the time for this has come and gone... well at least the original plan.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do something, but I think we need to hold our power for future use. And maybe rant here a bit longer coming up with a plan of action for next time
I think the point of most of this action is to establish dialogue with the LJ team so that fandom has surer footing with them. I think now is the time for that -- not protesting, which is what the original plans for this community were.
I think it's really important that we try to present ourselves to LJ in our own terms in some way as soon as possible before we get defined to them by someone else. Because there are definitely other people campaigning them right now, and we have to decide if we want to be associated with the agendas and methods.
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This isn't the first time LJ has had problems with PR and communication. I think it's time to FORCE them to take some corporate responsiblity before the vicious cycle continues.
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But - many interesting ones for us. Just a few with ideas we might consider:
http://news.livejournal.com/99650.html?thread=50862658#t50862658
http://news.livejournal.com/99650.html?thread=50849602#t50849602
I hope the EFF thing is real and not name-dropping, because they're good guys and is the right step in terms of both treating your users right and dealing with actual threats to safety appropriately.
...your continued silence on the art and academic issue (that infamous "thinly veiled") comment, remains distressing. As is your unwillingness to make any sort of reassuring statement to your GLBTQ users, whose lives are criminalized by various jurisdictions. That you don't even have the cojones to at least make some sort of reassuring statement about the basic dignity of your ( ... )
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I'm not saying we shouldn't do something, but I think we need to hold our power for future use. And maybe rant here a bit longer coming up with a plan of action for next time
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I think it's really important that we try to present ourselves to LJ in our own terms in some way as soon as possible before we get defined to them by someone else. Because there are definitely other people campaigning them right now, and we have to decide if we want to be associated with the agendas and methods.
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