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alice ttlg ([identity profile] alicettlg.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] liz_marcs 2007-05-30 03:16 am (UTC)

My personal suspicions is that this is the real cause of the various journal suspensions by LJ today - that advertisers starting calling SixApart and complaining about their ads appearing on pages with those types of keywords. And that's what triggered LJ to start actively looking for any profiles with specific terms in their interests. From reading other posts in various LJs and at JournalFen and GreatestJournal, it appears that's the main trigger, what's in the interests in the profile that's causing the initial investigation of an LJ or comm and subsequent suspension.

I just don't see this Warriors site having the pull to get this big a reaction, to get literally dozens of RL and fandom LJs and comms suspended - but one or two or three advertisers calling up, Google calling up to discuss adword placement, that would get the SixApart TPTB talking to lawyers who would advise doing a search on interests and to start suspending anything with specific keywords.

Saw similar things happen at Yahoogroups awhile back, conservative "family friendly" group got hold of the Stockholder Relations people and lickety-split, adult groups disappeared from view along with a fair number of deletions.

Advertisers and stockholders, get either one of them complaining and the lawyers start paying attention and support for the little people goes right out the window. :(

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