pasithea

http://firefox.org/news/articles/511/1/Livejournal-Bans-Underage-Adult-Fanfiction/Page1.html

Okay, so the only part that bothers me is this:

"This includes threats of physical harm against the President or other executive officers"

So under the banner of 'STOP PEDOS' comes political dissent.

Okay, sure, I do see that the word is 'threats'. Saying, "I wish Shrub would
fall in a wood-chipper." isn't a 'threat', but saying, "I wish I could take a brush-hog
to that Bush and prune off all its limbs." is a threat, if an idle one.

The problem, of course is that LJ can't possibly enforce this by filtering. I could easily have been talking about yard work in my examples above. That means that it will be enforced by self-appointed vigilantes. Read: Conservative ass-hats that will run screaming about anything they disagree with. I faced something similar on a MU* many years ago. Because I'm a rather vocal atheist and something of a hothead, the good christians took it upon themselves to report me every time I said 'ass', 'damn', or talked about anything even mildly inappropriate to a 'PG' area.

Other people of course, were free to talk about brutal rape and say 'fuck'. After getting banned a couple of times, I just started logging everything and was able to point out a half dozen examples where other people said/did similar or worse things.

MU*s are small though. A few hundred people at most. You can get your case reviewed. Something like LJ with millions of accounts? I'm skeptical. So hurray! One more win for the gestapo.