All the wank that's fit to print...

[hellziggy]

OK. Six Apart apologized. They say they are going to reinstate journals that weren't really child-abusers.

Now the uproar & wank is "But...but...that apology isn't good enough! I want them to go back in time to fix things!"

Whatever.
It was good enough for me. They acknowledged that they did things the wrong way. They acknowledged that they fucked up. They are going to attempt to repair the damage.

I think censorshiop sucks.

I also think they were well within their rights as a private corporation to do what they did. That doesn't mean I have to like it.

Yes, I could leave. "OMG! I'm going to Greatest Journal because they aren't EVIL like LJ is!"

But I won't.

I like it here.

I have friends here.

I also have a permanent account.

I've been happy with LiveJournal over-all. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not even going to bother setting up a GreatestJournal 'just in case.'

What I will do is continue to do backups of my journal because everything I write is a pearl of wisdom, yo.

And in a week this will be mostly forgotten and life will go on until the next wank happens.

This didn't affect my journal personally, but it caused a lot of my friends undo worry. That pisses me off. But there are repercussions for LJ. SixApart will lose money over this. Some people will leave. Some people will go to unpaid level. I don't think it will have any major or lasting financial impact for SA, but I do think it will be enough for them to put some thought into it next time they want to do something like this again.

Our free speech is not protected here by law, but I hope this makes SA think again about censoring.

So, it happened. It was bad. They apologized. They will attempt to fix it. I will stay. But I won't be so trusting. But I also won't allow this to change the way I think or post in my journal.

The end. I'm done with this unless there is another major change.

Also, I currently have no plans to start that Hawt Goat-Fucking Action filter...for now

(and yes, that last line was just to give me an excuse to use my goat-fucking tag again, now that I have one!)

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Word. The hysteria has been almost as annoying as what LJ did.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at this point now I'm tired of it (although I still keep getting lost in comment threads...)
It happened. They apologized. Comms & journals are starting to come back. Can we get back to the porn now?

[johnboze.livejournal.com]

Yeah, every time some big bunch of LJDrama comes through it makes lurking through pretty rough. But it comes and goes. Hell, I was involved in little LJDramas before we even called em such. Well, things blow up so much bigger now than 7 tears ago when I started out around here...

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

What I will do is continue to do backups of my journal because everything I write is a pearl of wisdom, yo.

Damn straight it is!! XD

And I agree.

... that is a wonderful tag XD

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Baaaa means no!!!!!

[mcbarnes1970.livejournal.com]

You better not leave... I would be depressed! I would lose my Minnesota connection should I ever gome up to the land of a thousand lakes and a billion mosquitos!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Hey buddy! That's TEN thousand lakes and TEN billion mosquitos, thank you very much! (and one Giganto mall that only tourists go to!)

[kniblet.livejournal.com]

Not all tourists. We skipped it (I think).

[scubagrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they apologized, and will reinstate legit journals; it is a free speech issue.

Bleh. I am amused by your goat-fucking filter though. :)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they fucked up and now they are trying to make good. But really, someone needs to protect the goats. Would goat-fucking be kiddy porn if it was baby goats?

[scubagrrl.livejournal.com]

Well, baby goats *are* called kids....

[wickedgroovy.livejournal.com]

I hate censorship...I really don't think they should have done that in the first place! However, I too am staying. I like it here. They just better quit messing with the peaceful balance we have going on here...

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

They seem to be trying to do the right thing now. Besides, in a week when the next drama happens people will forget...

[snowcalla.livejournal.com]

LJ went overboad, but it's right in the rules about what you can or cannot have on LJ. And when you signed up, you agreed to it.

LJ is legally liable if they have kiddie porn on thier site. Criminal and Civil penalties. So yeah...we all have Free Speech. Right. If you believe we have total Free Speech...go tell a cop to fuck himself. See how free that speech runs you.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yup. They did nothing legally wrong. And they are trying to fix their mistakes. They didn't need to. I'm ok with where things stand right now.

[mle292.livejournal.com]

Well said.

It's perhaps a good lesson for people to understand. Even if LiveJournal was the most wonderfulest, free-speech-friendly organization known to mammals, they could still be sold off to "Professor O'Reilly's House O' Evil" tomorrow.

Also, I would very much like to see more posts from you about goat-fucking.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

fucking baby goats = kiddy porn!

[kajicarter.livejournal.com]

No goat-fucking in this note, but I found something that made me think of you:

http://www.mediamugs.com/mugs/MugsBuffy01.htm