LiveJournal: Why We Oppose SOPA and PIPA

[theljstaff]

Since 1999, LiveJournal has been a safe harbor of self-expression and creativity, with the most substantial privacy policies of any social site. We believe the Internet must remain a place that is free to use, free to explore, and free to express.

This is why LiveJournal ardently opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect

Comments

[mathiel]

How wondrous is it that SOPA is also a Swedish word for a fricking LOSER. The deciders should take a hint :|

[hannahsarah]

OMG, that is hilarious!

Thank you, you just made my day. :-D

[darkqueen_25]

That... is brilliant. :D

[justfab]

Thanks for sharing this information. As a fanfic and original writer, it's important to know how this could effect me!

LJ owners profit from child porno.

[0_lechim]

Did you know that a member of supervising council (!!!) of LJ,
and one of the main LJ profiteers
has posted child porno ?!

If you think that THAT is ok, go on, and support current structure of LJ, and this letter in this post.

As far as I go, I will support ANY legislation that will hurt profiters of child prono!

TO ALL LJ STUFF:
member of LJ's supervising council
Artem Lebedev posted child porno in LJ.
He (A.Lebedev) is still a key figure for this company.

How in the world do you write this "moral" letter,
while LJ is still profiting from child porno ?!

As long as LJ "Tema" is still intact LJ as a company IS profiting from child porno.

Re: LJ owners profit from child porno.

[blood_ecstasy]

Look thats awful and everything but do you realize that for people like me it's therapy. I write poems and stories and talk about my favorite tv shows, and make graphics and manips and sing on videos and everything else creative you could think of. I would never ever post child pornography, none of my friends on here would either, but if SOPA and PIPA went through we wouldnt have anywhere to share our art, and we wouldn't have an outlet.
Do you think thats fair too? Don't let one person, or a few people, ruin it for the rest of us....

[cousin_giry]

SOPA translates as trash in Swedish, and PIPA translates as squeak in the same language. So SOPA and PIPA basically translates as squeakin' trash. And that summarizes my opinion on those laws.

[marus_puppy]

+1 to this comment!

[colordrifter]

^ THIS.

[darkqueen_25]

This is awesome :D

[kyaraelf]

Senators and Representative contacted. Thanks for making it easy for me to do so.

[0_lechim]

Prehaps you can be as helpfull towards me, and many others in the same situation, and tell how to start a class action suit against a lieing company company, that tramps on cosmuer rights, and is owned by a dirty Russian oligarch?
(*That company is called livejournal;)

[inutrasha94]

So if you're so angry at LJ why dont you just get off?

[inutrasha94]

Not trying to be mean or anything.. just saying

[telemann]

I'd like my community to do that thing ONTD has done, when you click on a post to read the comments, you get a page with a graphic that tells you to come here. Any ideas?