The Wild Rumor going around.

[icarus]

I got suckered, too. There's a wild rumor that LJ's being pressured to ban users.

LJ's Abuse team laughed their asses off when they heard it.

I feel a little silly. Okay. More than a little silly.

On the other hand, I really should have thought of the NC-17 content on my LJ when Henry Jenkins linked to the summary of the FanLib situation and it was then linked to BBC. There will be a traffic from outside fandom in this LJ in particular. Troll protection if nothing else. Although no doubt most of it was yesterday and now it's old news.

The Wild Rumor:

I'm copy/pasting this from ngaio who got it from yin_again who got it from xanphibian:


LJ is being pressured to purge right now. This isn't LJ's fault, so please don't stand up and beat your breast against them.

Because of the recent FanLib thing and the wank over the MJ figurine, fandom is in a pretty bright public spotlight right now, and it's not that great for us.

Outside forces are pressuring LJ to delete journals and ban users. It's been going on for about 12 hours now. It is FANNISH people who are under the microscope.

If you have the words 'rape' 'rapefic' 'incest' or 'underage' in your LJ interests and are able to do so, EDIT YOUR USERINFO to remove them. Any variations of these should be removed, too. If I were you, I'd get rid of anything like 'wincest' or 'malfoycest' or the like. Also 'chan' -- because as soon as these mainstream folks figure out what 'chan' is, they're gonna come down on us.

If you have underage or 'cest fic posted public in your journal, I'd lock it. (this is my Yin's personal recommendation and not that of anyone 'official') Any squeeing over 'cest fics or fic with any underage characters should be kept behind a lock, too.

This is not going to be a long-term thing. A little hiding and editing of our interests while the black cloud passes over, and we should be fine.

If you want, this can be reposted in your journals, but PLEASE filter out RL people and folks who will make a public stink about it. Someone risked their job to let the LJ fen know what was going on, and we want to keep the fact that we have this info as quiet as possible.

The LJ outages today almost certainly are because of this. It is NOT LJ's fault -- LJ has almost always been welcoming and wonderful to LJ fandom. Please be sure to emphasize this if you pass it on. If you know any names of who knew what or who leaked what, KEEP THEM TO YOURSELF.

P.S. Have a laugh at my expense. I should know better to check these things out.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yep. Yesterday I was kicking myself from backing away from the rumor. I was given a very clear message from people who work for Six Apart, so it seems like the LJ Abuse team was taken by surprise.

I'd locked anything I could find that could be considered offensive on Friday.

My opinion? The timing is a coincidence. This vigilante group's been contacting LJ since April, and they've been posting about LJ sex offenders for over a year. The vigilante's deny they're responsible for the deletion of literary LJs, but it sounds to me like they just didn't know the net would be thrown that wide. Typical of vigilantes, innocent people get caught in the crossfire.

A Lolita discussion group's among the deletions for pete's sakes.

Icarus