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aardy1 for pointing the way: On LiveJournal, using someone's full name (even when it's public information) counts as "invasion of privacy", against all common sense and not to comply with any law. On TypePad, another Six Apart service, it was deemed an invasion of privacy for a blogger to mention the first name and surname of someone he was writing about. But he's the founder of Tribe.net, so when he said this was nonsense, the CEO of Six Apart agreed, and VP of Customer Service Doug Bryan assured him that "Six Apart will only interfere with your content if we possess a legitimate court order or if there is a reported DMCA violation". Furthermore, "In this particular situation, as Barak replied in his email to you, the Six Apart employee who initiated the request to you was filling in for our normal TOS person who is out on maturity leave. They simply made a mistake and completely misread the situation. Your post is not in violation with TypePad terms of service. We apologize for the misunderstanding."
I also got a reply from LJ Abuse today, about shamanix's claim that they only look at friend-locked posts in reports of copyright violation, or serious violation of US law. His statement was "not entirely correct". Oh, LJ Abuse people giving users incorrect information? What a first!
More interesting reading to be had at the LJAbuse blog. I'm trying not to be gloomy about these recent revelations, but I'd be lying if I said I haven't scouted out alternatives to LJ. Still, I like the community here, and I'd be sad to leave it. Edit to clarify: No impending plans to leave, but I like to have a contingency plan.
aardy1 for pointing the way: On LiveJournal, using someone's full name (even when it's public information) counts as "invasion of privacy", against all common sense and not to comply with any law. On TypePad, another Six Apart service, it was deemed an invasion of privacy for a blogger to mention the first name and surname of someone he was writing about. But he's the founder of Tribe.net, so when he said this was nonsense, the CEO of Six Apart agreed, and VP of Customer Service Doug Bryan assured him that "Six Apart will only interfere with your content if we possess a legitimate court order or if there is a reported DMCA violation". Furthermore, "In this particular situation, as Barak replied in his email to you, the Six Apart employee who initiated the request to you was filling in for our normal TOS person who is out on maturity leave. They simply made a mistake and completely misread the situation. Your post is not in violation with TypePad terms of service. We apologize for the misunderstanding."I also got a reply from LJ Abuse today, about shamanix's claim that they only look at friend-locked posts in reports of copyright violation, or serious violation of US law. His statement was "not entirely correct". Oh, LJ Abuse people giving users incorrect information? What a first!
More interesting reading to be had at the LJAbuse blog. I'm trying not to be gloomy about these recent revelations, but I'd be lying if I said I haven't scouted out alternatives to LJ. Still, I like the community here, and I'd be sad to leave it. Edit to clarify: No impending plans to leave, but I like to have a contingency plan.
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