SMRT LJ-Biz

[tiamatlady]

This article, which I cannot find reference to in any announcements

Which effectively says "We'll ban first and maybe ask questions later"

Very glad I didn't buy a permanent account and am possibly not rebuying a paid account either. Dunno if I can live without the perks I like, we'll see.

Considering actually heading to the office, in order to get some AC cooling. But I haven't touched my room in a week and my closet is crying out for organization. Plus some useful hair stuff is still buried. Laundry needs a-doin, and cleaning needs to happen.

So maybe more later. I'm waiting for some people to get home and poke me for a chat.

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[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

They posted about it in lj_biz (though yeah, once this is officially decided about, you'd think they'd announce it in news).

They're trying to claim they're only banning material that would be illegal - but what they actually mean is "might be illegal", under obscenity laws - and for fiction about under-18s, they're using an excessively paranoid and broad interpretation, and banning material even if it's very unlikely that it would be ruled obscene. Yet confusingly for obscene material depicting adults, they've said they don't care!

It's amazing if they didn't think this might cause a problem, given that it was this (the idea that fiction involving sex and under-18s is illegal) that caused the uproar in the first place.

[tiamatlady]

The LJ Biz entry says "We're thinking about it"
There doesn't seem to be any reference to the "offical" policy taking place. I think it's buried and will continue to be. The article is correct that the fandom that made the most stink is "busy" this weekend.

Are you coming online - want to chat about yesterday. I hadn't emailed you yet.

*snuggles*

[developer.livejournal.com]

From the posts I've read, they have no intention of ever discussing the policy in news again -- it is over in lj_biz to hide it imnsho. And what is posted seems to be how they are operating.

This, combined with a number of other factors, makes me think there are lots of business things happening behinds the scenes -- whether it be VC, sales, public offering or a splitting up of holdings. I still can't imagine why 6A has both lj and vox beyond that Vox was in development before they bought lj and they were incapable of making the painful decision to deep 6 a product they had a team working on when they decided it made more sense to something to fill that market niche.

A quick peek at the current about us/c-levels implies we have a business team in charge, not the original group of blog enthusiast that even 6A was, let alone lj.

[tiamatlady]

Very true, which makes me even more hesitant to use the service. I realize this has been going on all along - it's harder for me to forgive when they're very clearly NOT good at covering their tracks.

Vox is also spamming my inbox. I NEVER agreed to have any stuff sent to me, so somewhere something has changed. Once I have five minutes to care about it, I'll be drafting an email regarding the policy once I find it.