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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!)

LJ has started censoring. Journals & communities are being suspended because of interests they have listed. This is in response to complaints from a group called "Warriors for Innocence"
The posts about it can be found here, here, and here
It upsets me so much that they are doing this. Yes, some real pedophilia communities were suspended, but at what cost? Freedom of speech is one of our most important freedoms.
Blanket suspensions may have removed some pedophile communities, but had that "Warriors" group chosen to work with law enforcement the real pedophiles could have been caught and arrested rather than getting a big ol' warning to go hide.
Censorship is never a good thing.
I'm glad I don't write fanfic because I don't think I could handle all the drama and wank that goes on, but LJ censoring it will affect me too. I read fanfic and I've found many good LJ friends because of it. I don't read incest or Wincest, and I don't have them in my interests, but just because it's not something I choose to read doesn't mean it shouldn't be there for others. And I'm not even saying that I *never* read Wincest. I don't ever go looking for it, but there is one author on my flist that writes it and I will read it when she does because I will read *anything* she writes. She is just an excellent damn writer. But for me she is the exception. If it is any other writer and the authors notes at the beginning of the fic list any of the things that squick me I just don't read it.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean you are required to read things you don't want to, it means that they have the right to exist and it is your decision to read or not.
I'm really hoping that we will find in a day or two that we all overreacted in response to this... *sigh*