This won't be on CNN tonight, it won't be in your daily paper and BBC won't run a program on it, but I thought that it was worth discussing. LiveJournal has buckled under pressure from a vigilante third party, calling themselves Warriors for Innocence, and supposedly deleted 500 journals with "illegal" interests. However, the definition of "illegal" seems ambiguous. A Gravitation fanfic community was taken down, along with another devoted to a scholarly reading and discussion of the book Lolita. I won't bore you with the whole list, but of all of the supposedly 500 accounts (communities and individuals both), only one so far has come up as actually supporting pedophilia. Of particular interest is a rape survivor whose account was banned for discussing her ordeal.
So, discuss. If you're on LJ, have you heard about it? Even if you aren't, what do you think about the fact a random (unofficial!)** group can pressure a company into deleting so many accounts without warning? I mean, hell, even AS IF! is looking into it. (See?)
This is scary. The implications are scarier.
("official" source)
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**this is not a government endorsed group, they aren't law enforcement officials, and they don't appear to be affiliated with AMBER Alert or any other recognized child protection non-profit
(ps. sorry this isn't "real news")
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