Look, like most of the 'net LiveJournal is a *toy*. Like most 'net toys, the daily mamangement of Livejournal is handled by people who appear to be kids with little or no business/RL experience*.
So what happens? They get a report that pedos are using their system, and like any self-respecting person would do, they shut that shit down ASAP. Let's face it, they didn't follow the official 'LJ Abuse Policy', but then again pedophiles really don't deserve due process; after all, they're kid diddlers and are therefore undeserving of certain rights.
Unfortunately, SixApart overshot the mark** and more importantly they didn't completely vet their information (or, in business terms, they 'failed to perform due diligence'). As a result a bunch of journals got shut down.
But here's the thing: not all of the shut down/deleted journals are being restored. Apparently some of them really DO belong to pedos and some of them are questionable enough that SixApart decided they didn't need that sort of customer. Lousy execution, but the proper result...imagine that. I'll bet the next purge will be done much more smoothly.
None of this is any skin off of my back. Then again, I don't post anything in my journal or in my interests that's remotely pedophiliac. I imagine that if I did, I'd have easrned myself a deleted journal right around now. As Aemilia points out, we are playing on someone's private property, and it's the owners' right to ask us to get the fuck out of the pool if they think we're pissing in it...even if we're not.
*Being all angsty and shit while owning a really cool Mac isn't Real Life experience, so please STFU now, 'K?
**Although there's a big question mark in my mind about what's appropriate material on LJ. Methinks the margins are a little too wide for SixApart to bitch without some more exacting standards.
On the other hand, some LJ users think they can post whatever they want, whenever they want, and use the First Amendment as a defense. I suggest these people stand on the streetcorner holding one of Mapplethorpe's photos of a nude child and sing 'Thank Heavens for Little Girls' at the top of their lungs. They'll see the First Amendment in a whole new light in about 15 minutes.
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Date: 2007-06-05 04:13 pm (UTC)Look, like most of the 'net LiveJournal is a *toy*. Like most 'net toys, the daily mamangement of Livejournal is handled by people who appear to be kids with little or no business/RL experience*.
So what happens? They get a report that pedos are using their system, and like any self-respecting person would do, they shut that shit down ASAP. Let's face it, they didn't follow the official 'LJ Abuse Policy', but then again pedophiles really don't deserve due process; after all, they're kid diddlers and are therefore undeserving of certain rights.
Unfortunately, SixApart overshot the mark** and more importantly they didn't completely vet their information (or, in business terms, they 'failed to perform due diligence'). As a result a bunch of journals got shut down.
But here's the thing: not all of the shut down/deleted journals are being restored. Apparently some of them really DO belong to pedos and some of them are questionable enough that SixApart decided they didn't need that sort of customer. Lousy execution, but the proper result...imagine that. I'll bet the next purge will be done much more smoothly.
None of this is any skin off of my back. Then again, I don't post anything in my journal or in my interests that's remotely pedophiliac. I imagine that if I did, I'd have easrned myself a deleted journal right around now. As Aemilia points out, we are playing on someone's private property, and it's the owners' right to ask us to get the fuck out of the pool if they think we're pissing in it...even if we're not.
*Being all angsty and shit while owning a really cool Mac isn't Real Life experience, so please STFU now, 'K?
**Although there's a big question mark in my mind about what's appropriate material on LJ. Methinks the margins are a little too wide for SixApart to bitch without some more exacting standards.
On the other hand, some LJ users think they can post whatever they want, whenever they want, and use the First Amendment as a defense. I suggest these people stand on the streetcorner holding one of Mapplethorpe's photos of a nude child and sing 'Thank Heavens for Little Girls' at the top of their lungs. They'll see the First Amendment in a whole new light in about 15 minutes.