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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."

O RLY?

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[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?

[logovo1.livejournal.com]

Role-playing games and abuse survivor groups? That is pretty insane. I really want to find a complete (or as complete as possible) list of the deleted communities. Also need to figure out if any persona LJs got deleted.

SixApart I'm thinking would rather get rid of us, to tell the truth.