Overreaction thy name is LJ

[scottishlass]

After closing down or temperarily suspending both user accounts as well as comms due to pedophilistic charges in said comms and by users, LiveJournal is now overreacting. While I still applauded LiveJournal's consequent handling of the pedophile comms, now all I can do is shaking my head over some of the antics LJ is pulling due to the Warriors For Innocence shenanigans (which incidentally are on blogger.com. Anyone know if WFI ever did a thorough search through the blogger.com comms and users? I doubt it.)

ETA: The wonderful and ever suspicious thelana looked a bit further into their pages and found some very interesting things: read here

Anyway, now LiveJournal - after closing a comm which was dedicated to Nabokov's work, esp. Lolita as well as several LJ's by Gothic Lolitas (rolls eyes) AND yaoi manga comms (fanfic etc.), they are now moving onward to delete questionable user icons. OI!!

What will be next? Certain dorama, manga and Johnny's icons prohibited?? *pets her icon of Tsu-kun and Taku-chan*
Child safety is good and nice, but this is going too far IMHO. Instead of doing a panicky purge every few years or so when someone is actually threatening to sue, keep track of certain comms and tighten the security. But this is ridiculous.

Comments

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Woow! I didn't now anything about these LJ actions and the whole story.

Hmm.. This is good from one point of view (you know what I think about the subject as a whole, and some of JE photo sessions of their teen boys). Yaoi? Well, personally I hate yaoi and will not cry about it at all...

But do Live Journal also battle with Nabokov's "Lolita", too? This is a bit absurdly. I don't like this novel nor this writer in general, but "Lolita" is a world literature classics already - it's s bit too late to make a fuss about it. IMHO

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I know and I agree with you.
LJ really made a big mistake bypurging ALL comms and ljs using certain trigger words as they not only deleted literary comms but also child abuse support groups and what not. With this action they labeled anyone who is now with a deleted comm or LJ as a pedophile :s

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right you are, this IS stupid. =/

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

*nods* I left an angry not in the replies of the last LJ news archive. this is really ridiculous. What will come next? Perhaps trigger words like: downloads, sibcest (for reference in doramas) or something in tags??

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

God knows - everything is possible. =/
But in any case, I'm sure, if they insist on this strange politic, we, common LJ users, will have to be smarter at the end - and to find a way to avoid stupid rules.

Well, he-he, may be this is my typically Russian "untamed" soul is speaking now, so stop ears: if the rule is stupid, it should be avoided. :D

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

You Russians ;-)
But it's true I really was tempted all day to put some trigger words into my profile, but I chickened out at the last minute. What was LJ Management thinking? Or probably not thinking at all :s