[LMB] Touchy list -- I blame publishing schedules
paal at gis.net
paal at gis.net
Fri Jun 1 17:17:48 BST 2007
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> > On Thu, 31 May 2007, quietann wrote:
> >
> > > There's also the huge Kerfluffle going on over at
> > > Livejournal, over a bunch of suspended/now reinstated
> > > journals/communities, many of which are fannish. (It appears
> > > that someone on the, ahem, far right/religious wing of the
> > > political spectrum started notifying LJ's advertisers that LJ
> > > "supported" various deviant s*xual acts involving underage
> > > persons, and the Six Apart management (owners of LJ) panicked
> > > and did some really, really stupid things. And then stumbled
> > > all over themselves trying to fix things when they figured
> > > out they'd been had.
> > >
> > > It may seem like a tempest in a teapot (or it does to me, at
> > > least), but it's made the entire fannish part of LJ really,
> > > really exceptionally cranky for the past few days...
>
> I lost two journals, which have since been restored, and was one
> of the major players in this little passion play. If I'm one of
> the people who's been seeming excessively/unusually cranky, there
> is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that this is why. If you are
> curious about what's going on, there are multiple public posts in
> my journal which is usually friends-locked.
Has there been consideration of a class action civil rights lawsuit
charging harassment and civil rights abuse?
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