LJ Strikethrough: Info for Scholars & Reporters
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Outside Articles & Commentary
In roughly chronological order.
— PetitionSpot: Against LJ censorship of fanfic and similar communities. May 30
— FandomTossed: Following the controversy. May 30
— FandomWank Commentary May 30
— Firefox News:The Purity Police and Fanfic (Leva Cygnet) May 30
— The Diggnation Podcast: Brief mention. May 30
— Warren Ellis: Blog entry supporting Warriors for Innocence’s protest and LJ’s response. May 30
— Boing Boing: Article on LJ purge. May 30
— A Crime Against Self: Victimless Sex Crimes: Thoughtful blog on virtual sex crimes, with comments on the LJ purge.
— C-Net News: Mass Deletion Sparks LJ Revolt. May 30
— Firefox News: Six Apart Deletes 500 LiveJournals, Many Fannish. May 30
— AnimeNews: Shota Community, Other LiveJournal Accounts Suspended. May 30.
— Slashdot: Mass Deletion Leads To LiveJournal Revolt. May 31
— Firefox News: Six Apart Apologizes.
— Tech.Blorge: LiveJournal Apologizes as Users Revolt. May 31.
— WebProNews: “Mortified” Six Apart CEO Makes Apologies. May 31.
— Wired: LiveJournal Censorship Crackdown on Harry Potter Fanfic. May 31.
— Wired: LiveJournal Hits ‘Undo’ on Sex-Themed Site Suspensions. May 31.
— Wired: LiveJournal: We Really Screwed This One Up.
— CNet: LiveJournal apologizes for mass deletion. May 31.
— Information Week: Child Sex Crackdown Causes Problems For LiveJournal
. May 31.
— The Register: LiveJournal says sorry for blanket sex-talk censorship. June 1.
— ITWire: LiveJournal suspensions trigger firestorm of complaints. June 1.
— Wired: 7 Steps To Orchestrating Your Own Web Revolt. June 1.
LJ Management Messages & Responses
— LiveJournal’s 5/24 News Post: Over three thousand LJ users have written Comments demanding a statement on the Strikethrough. No official response has yet been issued.
— Barak Berkowitz, CEO of Six Apart, Comment: Response to LJ member promising to check into suspension of two LJ accounts. May 30
— LJ admits errors: May 31
— LJ restoring fandom, fiction, and profile-problem-only accounts May 31
Organizational Players
— LiveJournal Home Page
— Six Apart: LJ’s Owners
— Warriors for Innocence: List of Posts about LiveJournal: BEFORE CLICKING: Note complaints that this site places spyware/adware on your computer. The anti-pedophilia activist Sues is one of the central contributors to this site.
— WfI post on LJ users’ comments & complaints May 30. See note above
LJ Communities About Strikethrough
— Censored Content
— A Jihad Against “Innocence”
— Moved Away (tracking LJs that haved moved to other blog/community services)
— Reasoned Speech
— Why Does LJ Censor?
Lists of Suspended Sites
— PedoBlog Tracker: A list of LJ blogs that have been suspended or deleted. Contributers to this site include Sues and other affiliates of Warriors for Innocence.
— “Permanent Suspensions”, or Strikethrough 2007: Lists sites that have been suspended temporarily or permanently, other informative LJ sites, advocacy groups, and other useful information. Also includes debunked rumors. See also PedBlog Tracker under the next heading.
— Hotel Cosmonaut: Another list of suspended sites.
Informative Personal Sites about the Strikethrough
— Are Warriors for Innocence Dominionist?: The most factually based LJ post to date speculating on the politics of WFI.
— Fandom Pays: Poll about how many paying LJ users participate in fandom sites that were suspended; attempt to convince LJ that the suspensions will cause financial harm.
— Form Letter: For protesting, and extended comments, including pro/anti suspension arguments.
— The Great Livejournal Deletegate of 2007: Attempt to sort fact from fiction.
— Liz Marcs: She wrote to Warriors for Innocence about this and received a reply, reported in her LJ.
— LJ Abuse Team’s response: Quoted in full, re: query about the suspension of Pornish Pixies.
— Misia: Open letter to LiveJournal about age-disparate sex with historical and contemporary discussion.
— Omen-Chan: LJ entry from a molestation survivor critiquing LJ’s purge and defending yaoi sites.
— Problems at LiveJournal: An off-LJ blog entry about LJ censorship dated May 21; one of the earliest entries related to this controversy that I was able to find.
— WFI Debacle: Comments on the law and whether LJ had any reasonable options.
— Yo Ho: I think this is the post in which the “Strikethrough” name for this controversy was first coined.
Other Anti-Pedophilia Sites Complaining about LJ Content
I searched the web for complaints about LJ and pedophilia from sources that weren’t closely affiliated with Warriors for Innocence but was unable to locate any.
— Absolute Zero: Posts with a LiveJournal tag. Note: The owners of Warriors for Innocence are contributors to this blog.
— Sues Views: Open Letter to SixApart, the Owners of LiveJournal. Sues is one of the three who run Warriors for Innocence. She also contributes fo Absolute Zero United and PedoBlog Tracker.
Scholarly Context & Background Info
— The International Yaoi Boys’ Love Fandom and the Regulation of Virtual Child Pornography: The Implications of Current Legislation by Mark McLelland & Seunghyun Yoo: A discussion of “virtual child porn” that is particularly relevant to the LJ response.
— Yaoi Research Wiki: My wiki collecting a scholarly bibliography about slash, yaoi, and similar works; since many sites containing this kind of content were suspended by LJ, this may provide further context for researchers or reporters who don’t understand all of the terms or issues involved.
Misc. Info
— Exposing LJ Abuse: A Blogspot blog about LJ suspensions and the LJ Abuse Team. March 15.
— The Register: LiveJournal tells lactating mums to put ‘em away: Last year’s breastfeeding controversy.
Terms of Service Comment: No change to LJ’s TOS regarding journal content has been made as a result of this situation, according to a comparison of the two documents below.
— LJ’s Terms of Service as of Sept. 10, 2006, recorded by The Wayback Machine
— Current LJ terms of service
Other sources:
FanHistory.Com: LJ Strikethrough
drupagliassotti @ May 30, 2007