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Something you should be aware of. Although this community in and of itself is probably in no danger, fandom as a whole needs to be informed about what's going on.
I'll give some links, but to sum up, some "moral" crusaders have decided that it's their duty to get lj accounts that have to do with pedophilia and incest and so on taken down. A do sympathize a bit with this, because that's some scummy stuff right there. However, the way they went about it was... well... not exactly good. (I'll stick in a huge disclaimer here: Pedophilia = bad, bad, bad, bad. I do not support it in ANY way. But I firmly believe that actions can be crimes, and thoughts cannot. Banning the discussion of such subjects doesn't exactly make me happy.)
Firstly, they threatened to go to lj's advertisers and get lj's corporate support pulled. And livejournal actually caved in to these demands and did it. Which is NOT a good precedent to set! (Look world! If you can threaten our wallets, we'll do whatever you want!)
Secondly, they made a big public stink about it, thus warning anybody who was an actual pedophile to change their interests and go underground. So as far as catching predators, they have done harm rather than good.
Thirdly, the group responsible, "Warriors For Innocence" has a page that tracks back links, which is why I haven't linked to it here, go google it if you want to see it. But first be sure that your firewall is up to snuff and you have some good protection against malware, because their site will give you it! They're downright scummy themselves.
And fourth, apparently this has caused lj to change their TOS, without telling anybody about the changes!
So where before livejournal would only remove accounts for actively promoting illegal activity, they'll now take them down for just discussing illegal activity. And among the journals banned there was apparently at least one journal belonging to a rape survivor, who'd listed some questionable things in her interests because she was dealing with what had happened to her by discussing it.
Now, links!
http://cussedness.livejournal.com/ has a great summary of all this, and some additional information and discussion.
http://community.livejournal.com/innocence_jihad/23599.html Livejournal's change in policy.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Livejournal_suspends_hundreds_of_accounts digg story and discussion (go digg it! We want everyone to know that LJ is willing to screw over their users if people threaten their wallets!)
http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/267358.html Big lj post summing up what's going on, with links to previous posts investigating the rumors. There are tons more links there if you want more information.
And if any of you have interests that might hint that you like unico a little too well *cough* if you know what I mean, you might want to go change them.
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