Huh? What?

[barkinmad]

Great lj-purge? Users and communities deleted? What's going on?

I get sick for one day and this is what happens *sigh*.

So obviously since I'm sick I didn't go to school today (I felt like puking for the majority of yesterday and now I have a killer headache. I also don't think my ears are ever going to work again.) I have way too much shit due tomorrow, so maybe I won't go to school again. I CANNOT do my IB Math Internal Assessment in one night when I can barely focus because my brain is going all explodey.

And serious, someone? Please explain this?

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[overstreets.livejournal.com]

LJ was pressured by some other... um, company, thing, business, organization (SOMETHING) to crack down on communities that had keywords such as incest, underage, child pornography or whatever, and so lots of communities got deleted by them. However, along with the communities that SHOULD have been deleted, they also deleted a Harry Potter slash community (probably because some characters are legally underage to engage in sexual activities), some roleplaying journals, a community dedicated to reading and discussing the novel Lolita, and some LJ users who had names that referenced incest and the like. Now everyone's going crazy and yakking about how their free speech is being violated, blah blah. A lot of people were encouraged to remove stuff like incest and underage and rape from their interests.

I don't think it was cool of LJ to delete fannish communities like that, because the people who write incest and stuff most likely do not actually support or engage in actual incest (see all Wincest shippers in the SPN fandom), but I also think a lot of people are blowing it totally out of proportion. LJ always reserves the right to delete anything they want, sooo... this isn't really all that surprising. XD And it's just fandom. No one will die if their incestuous porn is deleted from LJ. Fandom will still go on.

This comment is really long. XD I am so, so sick of hearing people get on their soapboxes about how LJ IS EVOL!!!111111111@!@ Their methods are a little strange, but I think it's good that they're getting rid of the REAL child pornography communities and stuff, because that is sick. Too bad fandom gets caught in the middle. OH WELL. *does not care much*

[overstreets.livejournal.com]

I found an article that says things better than I can!

http://news.com.com/Mass+deletion+sparks+LiveJournal+revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html?tag=st.num

I'm afraid that all of my f-list will move to greatestjournal now, or something. :( NOOO.