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

Here from MF

[tacky-tramp.livejournal.com]

I am leaving, and it's not for GJ/JF. I will be paying for my own webspace and using open-source blogging software.

Also, at least one fan-managed blogging site is in the works, and their TOS will specifically permit drawings and fiction about minors in sexual situations.

Re: Here from MF

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I'm not leaving - while many people of my friendslist are part of the fanfiction community, many are not, and have no need to go elsewhere. I enjoy all of my social network - if much of fandom leaves, I'll find them, but I'm not leaving LJ. (Also, of course, permanent account, so...)

I support the fans trying to make their own sites with their own rules.

And now that I'm looking at things - it happened at a community where the moderator (singular) was away and therefore couldn't respond to the warnings, but she did get them. Suddenly, it's looking like a comedy of errors. And note - it was two people. That's two too many, but it's still not wholesale.

Re: Here from MF

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Did the moderator of pornish_pixies say she'd gotten warnings *before* the two users were permanently banned (and grievously defamed)? And that they wouldn't have been treated so harshly if their mod had been around to answer? Because that's not at all what it sounded like to me.

Re: Here from MF

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Still not defending LJ here - the account holders should have been warned and there should be an appeals process. This was done extremely badly.

Re: Here from MF

[letmypidgeonsgo.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen a statement by femme that she got any advance warning, but it doesn't matter - what was posted on p_p did not result in the deletion of that comm, it resulted in the deletion of the personal journals of the artists in question. Which really...makes no sense whatsoever.