Just, before you do anything else, just read this first, okay? And remember that switching to another journaling site is not the solution. The solution is giving money to the ACLU and the EFF and working to change the laws.
but it's so much easier to expect the corporations to defend our rights, don't you know?
I find this whole thing so frustrating I can't stand it. Otherwise rational adults losing their minds over this makes me wanna crawl under a bed and stay there for the month.
If every single person who decides not to give their money to LJ gave it to the ACLU instead, *that* would make me happy. But they won't, so it's just sad.
Thanks for the link- it was a good perspective. I just wish 6A/LJ themselves would be more transparent about this issue, considering that it affects so many of their users. At this point the inability to communicate is getting ridiculous.
How hard can it be to clearly formulate some policy and state it?
I agree that the mid-term and long-term solution is fixing the laws. But in the short-term, I'm now convinced of fandom's need to have a secondary infrastructure to keep touch with each other once the "report abuse" button appears on every page of LJ.
Man, I'm tired. Hopefully I'm making sense this morning... I didn't sleep much or well.
Could you link me to something official indicating that this "report abuse" button is going to show up? Because I don't see anything official about that, just people saying it's going to happen, not on news or lj_biz or anywhere else. Granted, I might have missed it somewhere.
Okay, I found in friendsfriends someone who had posted a screencap of an LJ page where it shows up at the bottom--but it does not show up at the bottom of any of the pages I've seen on my own LJ, so I guess it must be dependent on what setup you have. Also, and I know this is another one of my unpopular opinions, but a whole lot of internet sites have something similar (e.g. on comment pages on news sites, to report if a comment is spam or abusive or something), and, well, I'm sorry, but I don't actually have much of a problem with it.
I'm swamped with reading too many open tabs at the moment to really be coherent, but here are a couple discussions of it: http://musesfool.livejournal.com/1410759.html?style=mine http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/718129.html?style=mine
One problem as I see this is that LJ/6A has still not clarified what their processes and procedures are for dealing with a complaint once it's filed. Lots of fannish folks have been asking and asking, and not getting any answers at all.
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Date: 2007-08-03 03:25 pm (UTC)I find this whole thing so frustrating I can't stand it. Otherwise rational adults losing their minds over this makes me wanna crawl under a bed and stay there for the month.
If every single person who decides not to give their money to LJ gave it to the ACLU instead, *that* would make me happy. But they won't, so it's just sad.
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Date: 2007-08-03 04:40 pm (UTC)Hear, hear.
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Date: 2007-08-03 03:31 pm (UTC)How hard can it be to clearly formulate some policy and state it?
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Date: 2007-08-03 04:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 04:30 pm (UTC)Man, I'm tired. Hopefully I'm making sense this morning... I didn't sleep much or well.
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Date: 2007-08-03 04:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 06:18 pm (UTC)http://musesfool.livejournal.com/1410759.html?style=mine
http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/718129.html?style=mine
One problem as I see this is that LJ/6A has still not clarified what their processes and procedures are for dealing with a complaint once it's filed. Lots of fannish folks have been asking and asking, and not getting any answers at all.
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Date: 2007-08-03 07:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 05:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-03 05:53 pm (UTC)