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30 May 2007 @ 04:20 pm
On the LJ Uproar  
RE: Suspension for Interests...

I'm reserving judgment until I hear from LJ. I have a couple of personal hypotheses about why they deleted a bunch of obviously "not inciting pedophilia" sites along with some comms that sound rather squicky to the uninformed outsider. Personally, I think they're making a point to some folks about "Being Careful What You Wish For" and about LJ not being willing to judge or censor based on content -- but I'd like to hear something from LJ and SOON. I'm a little more laid back than I should be but I'd rather wait for LJ's official statement AND for [livejournal.com profile] synecdochic's post explaining what has happened.

In the meantime, I'd like to note that I have a Greatest Journal account creatively named http://hsapiens.greatestjournal.com -- LJ isn't the only game in town. I'm willing to wait for an explanation that I will consider. And I'm willing to go elsewhere if I don't like it.

For now, I've deleted all my interests. Not because I'm worried about being deleted. I don't find friends that way since LJ changed the way it displays the results for a search on interests. If listing something as an interest is the same as legally promoting it, well, I need to think about what I want to *promote* before I relist my interests. I would hate to be held legally liable for for promoting the use of my favorite camera by someone who thinks it's really a faulty, piece of shit lemon that should be pulled from the market and never used by those under 8 without appropriate adult supervision that I failed to mention prominently in a disclaimer.

Also? If this is how right wing vigilantes are searching for targets, I'm all about denying them their easiest access routes. Because I am, at my core, stubborn and petty.
 
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ext_2780[identity profile] aizjanika.livejournal.com on May 31st, 2007 06:18 pm (UTC)
I've since read the apology, which does not address this issue, and I suppose I'm at a "wait and see" stage. We all do stupid things in life, though most of us don't do them in such a spectacularly public fashion.

So far, I'm not impressed.

I'm so glad you said that! That's my impression, too. I'm not reassured. I haven't yet read my flist (but someone else linked to it in comments) to see what reaction to this is, and I may not have a chance to read it any time soon (boo hoo), but I wondered if I was going to be alone in my "???? That's supposed to reassure us?" reaction. *g*

(I apologize for typos. *g* LJ is being wonky again, so I'm giving up on trying to preview and/or spellcheck.)
ext_2780[identity profile] aizjanika.livejournal.com on May 31st, 2007 07:28 pm (UTC)
Sorry for posting twice. *g* LJ kept timing out instead of posting.
Mish: Alec -- Double-Vision[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 1st, 2007 01:15 pm (UTC)
No problems. I still haven't gotten notification of any of these posts, anyway. I did recently receive a few from mid-March, though.
Mish: Alec -- Horror[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on June 1st, 2007 01:15 pm (UTC)
I would feel better about it all if I thought the guy understood what about SA's and his actions was wrong and had learned something to prevent a re-occurrence. I don't get that sense.

From what I've read, his idiotic quote to C|net was "taken out of context" and "the reporter of record is not the person he spoke to" on the phone...blah blah blah. My heart bleeds for him.

None of that would be an issue if they'd said, "OK, we tried something and obviously it's all FUBARed. We're working now to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. We'll issue a statement with more details as soon as possible." They'd still have screwed up royally but then it wouldn't have been compounded. Seriously, I was beginning to wonder if SA hadn't hired away some of FanLib's "best talent."

I haven't heard from more intelligent, well-spoken members of the staff so I'm guessing they don't want to touch this. Or have been told not to. Either way, it stinks. But it is a timely reminder to me that when I play in somebody else's sandbox, I have to play by their rules. Or get my own sandbox.