[Infowarrior] - Livejournal deleting questionable content?

[Richard Forno]

Apparently a new round of internet censorship is in the works, this time on
SixApart's LiveJournal service.

While I have no problem with LJ shutting down accounts to help prevent crime
and pedophilia, it seems that today's actions against online crime is
ensnaring folks and communities that might have distasteful, but not
illegal, connotations about various things ranging from fanfiction-writing
to online RPGs and alternative consenting adult sexuality
practices/interests.

Read more from a LJ user's perspective at "Permanent Suspensions", or
Strikethrough2007 --  http://catrinella.livejournal.com/151812.html

I wonder why LiveJournal (SixApart) is doing a 'broad-stroke' deletion
process instead of conducting a bit of due diligence first.  Shoot-first
isn't the way to handle these things....such is a lazy approach to this
problem.....and while I have no issue with getting rid of ILLEGAL content, I
do have a problem with arbitrarily-eliminating distasteful content, since
what's distasteful to one person might not be to another....and I am a firm
believe in lawful freedom of expression.  (I'll refrain from social
commentary about the Culture Police for now.)

Of course, anyone involved with child pr0n deserves what they get, and I
hope there's a special ring of hades reserved just for them.

-rick
Infowarrior.org