[LMB] Touchy list -- I blame publishing schedules

[Elizabeth Holden]

--- Azalais Aranxta <tiamat at tsoft.com> wrote:

> I lost two journals, 

How awful!  That must have been terrible.

> which have since been restored,

Good!

> Over the course of the past three days, I've woke up
> to find that two RPG journals I own were not 
> only suspended, but suspended for
> the flakiest of reasons, and that they were being
> linked to by crazy internet vigilantes who 
> claim to be fighting child sex abuse 

Faugh. That's the witch hunt of our era. It's being
used as the excuse for a lot of nonsense.

> yet have Confederate Flags and all sorts of
> other racist crap on their pages.  

I didn't know that. How... well, that makes the whole
thing just seem more stupid and worse than ever.

> I've tracked down the personal blog of the CEO of
> SixApart, the company which owns LJ.  I contacted 
> him (he was out of town) 

Timing is everything.

> and
> he posted in my journal, then apologised publicly.

Good!

> Today all the
> fannish journals were restored (I think--certainly
> most of the major ones were).  The actual pedos can
> stay deleted, and I hope they don't come back.

Yes.  Excellent.  Yes.

> A little tired.  And pissed as a wet hen that
> a bunch of fundie, racist skanks are calling ME 
> a pedophile because I wrote a villain who was 
> a sexual abuser, even though I
> never described it in detail, unlike, say, 
> Mercedes Lackey who uses nauseating
> amounts of detail, yet whom nobody calls a pedo.

It's a reason I don't read her books... well, mostly
that I don't like her style, but approach to a subject
is part of an author's style.

> But overall rather pleased, because WE WON.

Yes!  And congratulations.

The result in my case is that I started reading some
of those deleted comms when they came back - LJs I'd
never visited before.  Out of - I'm not sure -
curiosity and a sense of solidarity.

namaste,
Elizabeth