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Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt

Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.

What has outraged the LiveJournal protesters is that the purging of discussions and accounts went far beyond what they say was necessary to target pedophilia. One post noted that two journals were deleted on the grounds that "they in some way encouraged illegal behavior" even though the accounts belonged to clearly labeled fictional characters in a role-playing game. Another deleted community was reportedly home to Spanish-language discussions of Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel Lolita.

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"Our decision here was not based on pure legal issues," countered SixApart's Berkowitz. "It was based on what community we want to build and what we think is appropriate within that community and what's not. Wehave an awful broad range of discussions and topics and other things going on in LiveJournal, and we encourage other broad-ranging conversations on all sorts of topics. This was a specific case where we felt there was not a reason (for these journals to stay online)."

Berkowitz said the company would "obviously apologize" to anyone whose journal was deleted in error but added: "That's going to be a very small minority of the sites. I would be shocked if it's more than a dozen."

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[yaired.livejournal.com]

"That's going tobe a very small minority of the sites. I would be shocked if it's more than a dozen."
Neta?

Btw, que bien que lolita07 siempre salga a relucir. Es que en serio, eso fue una pendejada enoooorme.

[kaiserkehl.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA, q clase de pendejo es Berkowitz? COÑO (perdón, me doy el lujo de usar mis peores palabras aquí pero ashhh -_- q frustrante).

[le-mousquetaire.livejournal.com]

Una docena... se nota que el pobre no se ha puesto ha investigar realmente que tan grande es lo que hicieron. =(

[normaltrouble.livejournal.com]

Hooboy, someone else -- see my friends' page is linking to all this info etc as well.

It's spread beyond fanficcers and their ilk and readers like us.

I am comfortable here. I get settled. But if SixApart is beginning to renege on their promnise not to change LJ...there are other communities that might get excised-- such as the ana girls, and the anti-ana girls, and the cutters, and the Goths in all their many incarnations- from neo-Victorians to Metal thrashers et al...

And you know I feel a Dylan lyricspam comin' on.

And what about the snarky icons?

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

pretty major minority. =(

[rhea-carlysse.livejournal.com]

Me alucina todo lo que están haciendo. Hay un comentario debajo que dice que le indigna que páginas del fandom se vayan y lista una serie de comunidades que tienen como interés: anti-mujeres, anti-gays, anti-lesbianas, anti-judíos... Que no han sido borradas, vaya tú por dónde.

Cada vez que pienso que la sociedad no puede tener una doble moral más retorcida, alguien hace que me dé cuenta de lo equivocada que estoy.