To Catch an LJ Predator

[sigma7]

They're calling it Strikethrough 2007. From liz_marcs: If you've seen certain users, RPG journals, or fanfic groups suddenly getting suspended out of the blue, this post should explain everything. There's also a GreatestJournal organizing for LJ refugees and a reminder to back up your LJ. (Some are reporting getting suspended for icons. Oh, this should be fun.)

warren_ellis: Lia’s got a small collection of related links here. Personally? I have an eleven year old daughter. I’m with Warriors For Innocence on this. Of course, almost as bad a name as "Perverted Justice," who views LJ as, and I'm not making this up, an "aggressive corporate sex offender" (and some see PJ's hand in all of this, too).

My worries: that, as liz_marcs notes, the first whiff of this came in April, thus insuring actual "predators" had ample time to cover their tracks. And, of course, that by willfully glossing over the fact-fiction line, LJ/SixApart hurls itself quite willingly down the slippery slope, and I know some of you are going to get caught in it, one way or another. Me? I guess I'm just kinda glad my LJ's not that interesting.

Comments

[alexlucard.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Does this really surprise anyone? Remember the insanity they did to my LJ?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Small-scale entirely-arbitrary insanity, that I've come to expect. This is raising their game to an entirely new level. If nothing else, it's interesting to watch the reaction....

[alexlucard.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Slowly but surely JLabuse is partying like it's 1984

[jkgriffin.livejournal.com]

I also think she is right on the money about tactics; if the investigation isn't done right, the case gets thrown out. Due process isn't entirely a joke. A possibly evil individual gets off because some self-righteous amateurs think their cause is just.

I reported some guy who posted child porn. I want them off the internet. But it has to be done carefully and with cooperation from people who understand the rules.

[jkgriffin.livejournal.com]

And yes, your LJ is that interesting. Just not salacious. :)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I'm trying. I just can't work salacious into my schedule.

[blemt.livejournal.com]

I can't even work salacious into my vocabulary let alone my schedule. ;)

[marysiak.livejournal.com]

And now I'm panicking. What are people getting shut down for? Is f'locked stuff safe? Is private locked stuff safe?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

People are getting shut down for, among other things, listing "illegal" things in their interests (in practice, things like "incest" and "rape," with no distinction thus far being made for survivors/awareness, and as someone else has pointed out "illegal" would also cover things like, oh, "gay marriage," in this country). In practice they're getting deleted/suspended because someone bitched about them, and that's part of the alarm for me.

[marysiak.livejournal.com]

Might move my fanfic to greatestjournal