Thank You Liz, for writing that letter. It will be very interesting to see how responded to you. Those were very good questions to ask considering that these people are pressuring livejournal the way they are. I'm curious to know... if they can try to pressure livejournal into deleting posts and banning LJ users what can be done to ban their accounts for their websites for wrongly going after people who aren't child predators.
It annoys me that some quote, unquote, "group" gets themselves all worked up and can actually try to pressure LJ into having people who aren't child predators in the least bit LJ's messed with. Why? because they don't like certain fanfic content? It obviously hasn't crossed their minds that a person can write a fictional story and not condone some or all of the things that their writing about. That their just writing a story to write a story. Now, I'm not talking about squick-worthy comments that they cited for their reasons for doing this, either. I'm talking about anything they don't like. It feels like their trying to incorporate the cyber version of the salem witch hunt. Who made these people judge and jury of what gets written in our fucking LJ's, anyway? Sorry for the profanity, but it just kinda gripes me.
I don't mind anyone who is properly trained by law enforcement going after child predators on the internet. In fact, I think it's a very good idea. But trying to ban a bunch of fanfic writer's because you don't like their content and think they MIGHT BE predators is just wrong and it seems like their should be laws protecting people from that.
Anyway, I thought your letter was excellent and I commend you on your restraint.
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It annoys me that some quote, unquote, "group" gets themselves all worked up and can actually try to pressure LJ into having people who aren't child predators in the least bit LJ's messed with. Why? because they don't like certain fanfic content? It obviously hasn't crossed their minds that a person can write a fictional story and not condone some or all of the things that their writing about. That their just writing a story to write a story. Now, I'm not talking about squick-worthy comments that they cited for their reasons for doing this, either. I'm talking about anything they don't like. It feels like their trying to incorporate the cyber version of the salem witch hunt. Who made these people judge and jury of what gets written in our fucking LJ's, anyway? Sorry for the profanity, but it just kinda gripes me.
I don't mind anyone who is properly trained by law enforcement going after child predators on the internet. In fact, I think it's a very good idea. But trying to ban a bunch of fanfic writer's because you don't like their content and think they MIGHT BE predators is just wrong and it seems like their should be laws protecting people from that.
Anyway, I thought your letter was excellent and I commend you on your restraint.
LMZ