Strikethrough 2007, Part II: The Boldening

[sigma7]

Yes, it's happening again. But you have to imagine that somewhere, somehow the urge to "avoid another Strikethrough" must've permeated some membrane, because deleted LJs are no longer struck-through -- witness mightygodking.

You would hope that SixApart would've parsed the meaning of that directive beyond simple CSS styles, but let's be realistic, this is their approach: superficial and reliant on sideways semantics.

And yes, don't miss LJ's guest shot in Rolling Stone, twisting in the wind for not bowing down at the altar of Perverted Justice.

Comments

[gloomchen.livejournal.com]

Of course, none of these people post the art that got them suspended so that we can look at it and say, "well DUH, that's against TOS, what in the hell did you expect?" before starting some rallying decrying the horrible injustice done to them.

[gloomchen.livejournal.com]

Oh and... do a google search for: "tightly held" ponderosa121

Warning, NSFW. Check out the cached version of the LJ entry that got her banned.

And then say, DUH, OF COURSE THEY GOT BANNED.

[marysiak.livejournal.com]

Oh my, perhaps a friends lock might have been in order there!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

People had been posting that image in the comments to the latest post in news, before it got overrun with cat macros and hit the 5K comment barrier. So despite me not wanting to know what was going on, now knows exactly what the fuss is about.

No, I'm not defending that piece of work, but neither am I going to say LJ/6A's done an even adequate job of addressing the disease rather than an occasional symptom, and also bonus points to burr86 for bringing the dumb.

[marysiak.livejournal.com]

Actually the image doesn't bother me at all, although it's not really my bag, baby (I prefer text to pictures). But it shouldn't really come as a big shock to the author of the work that uptight American corporations weren't going to take well to it. Repressed hypocritical execs don't like reminded that they like a finger up the arse when no-one is looking.

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, not this crap again. What a pain.

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

lol livejournal.

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

What people don't understand about my banning is that what I was doing with Improved Archie - sorry, Improved Archie (it's so pretty without the strikethrough!) - had an actual legal defense that could have won and I still got steamrollered.

A lot of Livejournal users could get totalled any time the companies whose intellectual property they're infringing upon feel like it. If Marvel and DC ever got their collars heated up, they could probably ban a third of Livejournal at will.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

What's telling here is 6A's advocacy -- or lack thereof -- on behalf of its actual users. Like you said, the merits of the IA fair-use were never decided or really even ruminated on; it got too many complaints to where it was no longer feasible for 6A to defend or host it. And that's what's happening now. Too much pressure for 6A to be bothered establishing any dialogue or process, due or otherwise. The TOS allow for deletion for whatever reason, so there you go.

And I'd say that the only reason that Marvel/DC/et al. haven't come down like Mjolnir on infringement on LJ isn't because they can't, but because that rabid fandom is keeping print alive right now. If there were an online crackdown, that backlash could be if not the final straw, certainly a severe blow to an already-struggling industry. Scholastic can survive without Harry/Snape artists, but comic companies need every fan they can get nowadays.

[rewil.livejournal.com]

When LJ institutes the "report abuse" flag on every page thing ... that's going to be fun.

[rewil.livejournal.com]

OK, so this is interesting.

rahaeli is on lol_meme, and has given a few details about life on the other side.

Aw, poor Burr.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

OMG made of pure win. Respect++ for rahaeli.

I feel sorry for burr86, but...not in a good way, I think. In a "he has to be Scott Ladd for the rest of his life" way.

Also, I found someone's handwritten version of the Beaver Dance online. Can't scan it for Hurla DNA, but odds say there's probably some Hurla DNA on it somehow.

[rewil.livejournal.com]

In a "he has to be Scott Ladd for the rest of his life" way.

Ha! Yes.

... And as for the Beaver Dance, I'm both intrigued and filled with a certain amount of Do Not Want.