norwich36

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 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.