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Well, I suppose the good news about the livejournal purge is that it's happening before I shelled out $150 for a permanent account. I didn't have any interests that would have drawn attention, but in solidarity I deleted them all and put "freedom of speech" as my sole interest.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, there's info here and here and purportedly here, though I can't get fandom wank to load, personally.
ETA Other good links as I find them: here (this is actually the best brief summary of the situation I've seen); here (a list of the deleted communities); here (an easy link to add freedom of speech to your interests); here for a very thorough review of what's going on, list of banned comms and resource list; here for more info on the group behind this and LJ's response; here and here for some suggestions on how we might respond; here for some suggestions on how to get Six Apart to take our concerns seriously, e.g. paid users threatening to leave/mentioning that you won't be buying a permanent account because of this; here for a call to "push back" in response to this; here for some summary of legal issues (and why lawsuits probably won't work as a response).
ETA 2 Since I realize my post was not very informative, the basic gist is: LJ is permanently suspending accounts like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pornish_pixies that have terms like incest listed as interests, as a result of pressure from some vigilante anti-childporn group. The links above have a lot more detail about this, but that's the short version.
Well, if fandom all decides to migrate, I'm norwich36 at greatest journal as well.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, there's info here and here and purportedly here, though I can't get fandom wank to load, personally.
ETA Other good links as I find them: here (this is actually the best brief summary of the situation I've seen); here (a list of the deleted communities); here (an easy link to add freedom of speech to your interests); here for a very thorough review of what's going on, list of banned comms and resource list; here for more info on the group behind this and LJ's response; here and here for some suggestions on how we might respond; here for some suggestions on how to get Six Apart to take our concerns seriously, e.g. paid users threatening to leave/mentioning that you won't be buying a permanent account because of this; here for a call to "push back" in response to this; here for some summary of legal issues (and why lawsuits probably won't work as a response).
ETA 2 Since I realize my post was not very informative, the basic gist is: LJ is permanently suspending accounts like
pornish_pixies that have terms like incest listed as interests, as a result of pressure from some vigilante anti-childporn group. The links above have a lot more detail about this, but that's the short version.Well, if fandom all decides to migrate, I'm norwich36 at greatest journal as well.