Teh Crisis!

[tju_tju_tju_tju]

Well, everyone is completely freaking out because some vigilante conservative group has decided to target LJ. Communities with things like incest and under-age sex are being suspended left and right, because this group is reporting them all over the place. They mostly seem to be targeting the HP fandom, which sucks, because they get enough crap and abuse over there already.

What does this mean for the Heroes fandom? Probably not much. Everyone is taking precautions---deleting unsavory interests, f-locking all of the entries, stuff like that. The only faction of the Heroes fandom I'm worried about is the Petrellicest---Peter/Claire, Nathan/Peter, etc. Especially Peter/Claire, actually, because that ship has actually had some coverage in the media. But paire_love got rid of "trigger" interests and is in the process of f-locking the entries, so they're probably not going to get flagged. I have no idea what's going on with the Nathan/Peter communities, but they're probably taking precautions as well.

Slash is safe. LJ cannot do anything about the slash, no matter how many people complain about it. They can't delete or suspend any slash communities legally.

This is all perfectly ridiculous. I do not, of course, condone incest or sexual abuse in real life, but this is fiction. The thing that's really getting me mad is that they're doing this indiscriminately. A freaking Lolita community got suspended. It's Vladimir Nabokov, for God's sake! It's a classic novel! And what about survivor communities? Are those going to get suspended too?

I don't blame LJ for this. They're just trying to protect themselves. But if this group hadn't started reporting these comms, none of this would have happened.

Comments

[runningondreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I still went in and f-locked most of my fic posts (because heroes_tv is basically locking the whole community as a precaution- I only know about this stuff because one of the mods sent me an e-mail), but thanks for the reassurance ^^ I'd got that impression from most of the posts as well. It's the incest and child molestation they're worried about.

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Glad I was of some reassurance. :) Hopefully this all blows over soon. I don't really like the idea of all the communities being f-locked. Dunno why; I just don't.

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also, from what I'm gathering, they can't actually do anything about the content in the journals. That's not the thing that gets you in trouble. It's the interests. They also don't seem to be targeting individual people; there have been some regular journals suspended, but I think those were RPG journals.

Just FYI, if you didn't know already.