Current mood:	nauseated
Current music:	Yo George - Tori Amos

LiveJournal Strikethrough 2007
So, apparently due to pressure from a group by the name of Warriors of Innocence (BE CAREFUL! their site is reportedly loaded with spyware. I'd avoid touching it even with a 10-foot pole if you use Internet Explorer), LiveJournal suspended a large number of users and communities that they claimed were supporting illegal activities such as child molestation and incest. Certainly, I'm against such things and don't want them anywhere near my blogging community.

However, LiveJournal instead suspended accounts willy-nilly. Sure, they got plenty of that sort of stuff gone. But they also deleted fanfiction/fandom RPG communities/users, survivors of child molestation, and even literary discussion of Nabokov's Lolita. Some of these accounts are displaying the message associated with user deletion, when the users report not having deleted them at all. users with interests such as "yaoi" and "yuri" have had them disappear from their userinfo without their doing, despite the fact that neither necessarily involves underage characters.

And up until this point, LiveJournal had been responding to individual user and other anti-pedophile group reports of communities of child molester communities with a "sorry, we can't prove they're really doing it, so there's nothing we can do."

Apparently, though, SixApart considers avoiding third-party boycotts on their advertisers to be more important than their users.

I'm not going to call this a First Amendment issue, and the Bill of Rights is only to protect us from our government. But this still makes me sick.

This really makes me wish I had anywhere else to move my journal to. But not one's on DeadJournal anymore (too stupidly goth anyway, I was only there in the first place because my friends were), and I refuse to move somewhere like melodramatic, with its emo name and needlessly sexual terminology for mundane things like comments. (I have no problem with sex, but that's just immature.) Plus, there's the fact that I really don't want to lose all my posts here, and I never even got around to copying over all my pre-LJ DeadJournal posts in the first place.

*sigh*