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Mass Deletion Leads To LiveJournal Revolt
Green Monkey writes "LiveJournal has been suspending accounts suspected of promoting incest — except that many of them were communities for survivors of abuse and people discussing Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Even after being informed of the problem, LiveJournal apparently refuses to reinstate the banned accounts. LiveJournal's official news blog has filled up with hundreds of complaints protesting the decision, so we could have another Digg-style user rebellion brewing." Update: 05/31 11:50 GMT by KD : strredwolf writes to let us know that in their offical blog LiveJournal admits to botching the suspension, saying "We made a mistake and now we are going to try to fix it."
Barak Berkowitz, of Six Apart, Livejournal's parent company, posted a reply a little while ago. Unlike digg a few weeks ago, Berkowitz sounds both sorry and his explanations seem reasonable.
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there are 2 types of responses in this thread:
1. livejournal overreacting
2. livejournal taking issue with incest
i see plenty of people in the replies here angry at #1 (right), and i see plenty angry at #2 (not right)
incest is wrong folks. for biological, developmental, psychological, moral, social... a whole range of reasons. please don't confuse people being angry with livejournal's ham handed approach to the issue as a signal that there is any reason to accept incest. it nonsense to conflate these two points, but a lot of you are doing just that
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
"I'm going to zealopusly prosecute you on not properly qualifying your rough sketch remark on slashdot... and completely forget the overriding issue!"
the overriding issue of course being, incest no esta bueno
comprende senor estupido?
zzz
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it