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Wed, Aug. 8th, 2007, 09:13 am
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hanabishirecca: [in fandom_action] New Copyright Law Introduced - Rep. Steven Chabot (R-OH) has introduced a bill that strengthens copyright laws. This bill modifies existing laws to make it possible for you to be charged criminally for copyright infringement and increases the penalty for such infringements. -
- minnow1212: ibarw: announcement, coc squee (Smash Williams), vids with coc - The juxtaposition of IBARW and VVC triggered a thought: if you were putting together a vidshow featured around characters of color, what vids would you consider putting in? -
- schemingreader: If you have been hiding under a rock and don't know the deal with LJ... - You can lose your access to services you paid for on LJ because their committee decides that a single post is obscene. (Or pornographic, but they don't actually know the legal difference, and anyway this isn't about legality, it's about what they think.) -
- yhlee: IBARW: Virtual integration; race and TV. - Look, I understand the desire to have a favorite show be, well, flawless. Angel is my favorite show. But Angel is chock full of flaws, and its handling of race (consider Gunn's arc, especially a certain questionable development in S5) is one of the bigges -
- blue_soaring: Holy crap! - ponderosa121 is actually completely obliterated from LJ. All the comments she ever made in my LJ are gone, all the posts and comments she made in the communities I know she was in, they're gone too. Completely. -
- insomnia: And don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. - Looks like Brad is leaving LJ... to the wolves. //He tries to reassure us by saying "LiveJournal's in good hands -- I'm not worried about it."//Except, of course, that he doesn't really believe that. He knows LJ is dying -
- p_zeitgeist: Why I'm supporting migration. - The new communication and creative tools available to all of us have opened up the whole world to us, metaphorically speaking. There are still would-be gatekeepers, who want to keep us all within the gates; the new tools have enabled us to bypass them. Th -
- witchqueen: News & Notes - When I hear the word 'wank' applied to mediafandom meta discussion, I understand it to dismiss the discussion in question not only on the basis of it being too loud and emotional for the dismisser to participate, but also on the idea that the issue at han -
- brown_betty: je ne veux pas être complice - If someone pointing out your public actions, not to lj abuse, or citizens for public decency, but to their friends-list, is "threatening" to you, then maybe you should ask yourself what that means about those actions. -
- alyburns: Confused, but with ideas - I think it's time to flood LJ with letters - literally. Go to every site they offer for comments: -
- alyburns: Anyone surprised by the following? - Below you'll find LJ's response to one of my many posts at their various sites, this one more specifically around the abuse report button on every post (you'll also see that they added my post to the end of theirs: -
- measi: Meta thoughts on LiveJournal and fandom - In this case, since itâ™s appropriate, the artist can create whatever art, written or visual, that (s)he wants. BUT â“ others, including the company that owns the servers where the art is posted have every right to respond. -
- bubble_blunder: An Open Letter To LiveJournal and Six Apart.... - We are all users of your service. We came here for a variety of reasons. We stayed because we like it here, and because we put a lot of time and energy into building and maintaining a community here. We honestly don't want to leave -
- missscarlett: [in fanficrants] I really think people worry far too much about Mary SuesGenuine Mary Sues are horrible, true. But people who prevent themselves from creating and using possibly very interesting characters just because they might have a few Mary Sue elements is really ticking me off.
- jmtorres: An exercise - Fandom, we sound like the crazy people.//This is not to say that we are crazy or wrong. This it to say that our arguments need to be reworded/.../, because right now, to the non-fannish, what's going on here makes us look like the bad guys. -
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lonelywalker.livejournal.com: Tuesday, 7th August, 2007
Wed, Aug. 8th, 2007, 07:05 am
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cryptoxin.livejournal.com
I wrote a post defending LJ's stance on pro-ana comms here:
http://cryptoxin.livejournal.com/3323.html
I'll leave it up to you to judge whether it has enough fannish relevance to link to -- and "no" is certainly a valid answer.
Thanks -- and I hope things die down a little soon so you all get a bit of a break!
Wed, Aug. 8th, 2007, 04:13 pm
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Wed, Aug. 8th, 2007, 04:13 pm
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Wed, Aug. 8th, 2007, 03:26 pm
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sea0tter12.livejournal.com
I cannot believe that LJ has someone like coffeechica working for them who says things like this:
"Nothing to do with advertisers -- we allow pro-anorexia communities to remain because they are, in most cases, serving as support groups for the members. Silencing them won't make their problems go away; we'd rather allow them to heal together as a community.
If specific communities are actually inciting people to harm themselves, giving specific instructions that we believe cross the line, then Abuse will take action. If you have questions about specific communities, I encourage you to contact Abuse rather than list them off here."
How fucking clueless can you get? And if that is truly LJ's stance, that is messed up.
ETA: So, in regards to the LJ spokesperson saying that pro-anorexia groups are a good thing, I decided to Digg the conversation in question. LJ is willing to have harmful pro-anorexia groups, but they don't want Harry Potter art. That makes so much sense. Help me bring attention to this by Digging the article at this link: http://digg.com/business_finance/LiveJournal_supports_pro_anorexia_groups/
Wed, Aug. 8th, 2007, 03:27 pm
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Wed, Aug. 8th, 2007, 04:13 pm
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Wed, Aug. 8th, 2007, 07:43 pm
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