Comments on: Fanfic trouble at Live Journal

By: Madeline Ashby

Madeline Ashby — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:38:09 +0000

I also wanted to add that I'm not entirely happy with PROTECT's policies at the moment, either: consider the writing of the Protect Act and how it has influenced manga readers like Christopher Handley.

By: Faith

Faith — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:21:24 +0000

My take on the incident and how it links to my research on online fan communities can be found here. It has also, unsurprisingly, rather dominated the Fandom Lawyers community recently. The CNet article was also quite interesting - if only to compare emphasis of removed journals (the news reports and fandom stressing the incest, taboo but mostly consensual in fic, and underage sex, again mostly consensual in fic, rather then child rape or incestuous rape and LJ and WFI stressing the child rape and pedophilia angle). And discussion of Strikethrough07, not complete without mention of Fandom Counts: 33388 members and counting! That makes fandom approximately comparable with Finland (34667), the tenth most popular country represented on LJ.

By: Brenna O'Brien

Brenna O'Brien — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:08:00 +0000

Thank you for a clear and intelligent explanation of this startling occurrence on LiveJournal, and it will be interesting to see how things develop in the future.

By: Elfwreck

Elfwreck — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:18:03 +0000

Some other links that give perspectives on what happened:

http://germaine-pet.livejournal.com/72292.html points out that WFI was ignored until it threatened to tell LJ’s advertisers that their ads were being shown next to content that promoted child pornography.

http://stewardess.livejournal.com/261058.html offers a possible explanation for the whole mess: LJ/6A wants to be sold to someone with more money, so they sent out a “clear out the pervs” order.

http://unfilthy.livejournal.com/224385.html brings questions about the new interpretation of the TOS, pondering how LJ will decide if a journal is being used to support criminal activity based on its interests.

http://elfwreck.livejournal.com/188101.html My own highlights of key concepts, with quotes showing contradictions between previous policy & this current purge.