Oh, dear. Not again.

[mamadeb]

If you have a paid account, keep paying it. Or don't use non-payment as a reaction. Use it as a weapon. "If you continue with this, I will cease paying." Using it as a reaction doesn't help anything. Let the LJ PTB know that you're unhappy.

As for those moving - why? Do you really think that the other social interactive sites are immune? Do you really think that Warner Brothers/Scholastic won't contact GJ or IJ or whoever with the same demands? Do you really think those sites won't fold under threat of lawsuit, too? Because, seriously? That doesn't make sense.

(As for those who are saying, "Another weekend when the HP fen are distracted by a convention!" Find me a weekend this summer when that's not true. Oh, yeah. July 21. :) )

HP fen are being targeted because that's the most visible fandom in the world right now.

Do I support this? NOT AT ALL. Do I agree with their options? NOT AT ALL. Does what I have to say mean anything? Sadly, no. My permanent account has earned out.

I have backed up my fic journal. If LJ folds, mamadeb or mamadeb1963 will find where most people have gone and follow. But I've built up a network I love here, and I don't think I'll get it someplace else.

ETA: Thank you to the people who know the law and responded here.

Comments

[winemedineme.livejournal.com]

Did I miss something?

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Livejournal/6Apart permanently deleted the accounts of fan artists who posted explicit HP art featuring underage characters - and has forbidden them to make new accounts.

People are, not surprisingly, Not Happy.

(Yes, the combination of copyrighted material and underage is playing with fire. But that calls for a warning to remove the material, not a permanent deletion.)

[winemedineme.livejournal.com]

Meep. I'd agree with you on that. Oy.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Do you have links? It hasn't hit my friends page yet, you are the first.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

oops

http://mamadeb.livejournal.com/736355.html?thread=3880291#t3880291

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up! I'm not in HP fandom in particular, so this is all new to me.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Correct, except that the art in question *didn't* depict minors.

It's also worth noting that in both cases multiple accounts were deleted, not just the one account which was alleged to have been used to post inappropriate content: RP journals, non-fandom journals, RL journals. The criterion used to decide what went in the dragnet was apparently the email address associated with the accounts. Also one of the affected accounts had just gone from paid to permanent status in the wake of Strikethrough.