Name/Alias: Ryukku Journal name: Traversed Location(optional): Illinois Comment(optional): You have the right idea livejournal, but you're off course in doing anything about it. You have wrongfully deleted journals of innocent people, mostly writers, who have nothing to do with rape, incest, or pedophilia in real life. As a writer I know that writing about something does not mean believing in it too. I write about rape and incest, but I do not approve of it. I write about it because it's true to the story and characters. It's something horrible that they have had to go through and I'm sure many people in real life as well. No where in the United States code of laws does it say that writing about these things is illegal, and according to your TOS, a journal can write about these things but declare that they do not support it. I don't support it. I'm sure many people who have gotten their journals deleted didn't see it so maybe you should bold it so more people see it so they can do it ahead of time.
One of the best things about the United States is freedom of speech and, the way I see it, you are wrongfully taking that freedom away by deleting personal and community journals, where speech lived. If the whole world used that logic, then there would be no novelists like Anne Rice writing about rape and other sexual acts. It would not bode well in real life and by god it will not bode well on the internet either.
I'm not saying you should not stop pedophiles and other illegal activity here, I'm saying that you should really "look before you leap". Actually go the extra mile to interview the persons in question or privately do this and see if they are actual pedophiles. I know many people who may have had certain interests in their profile, either as a joke or because they wrote about it, but I have met them in real life and surely I know that these people are not pedophiles or the like.
Now I'm sure this has gotten all over livejournal. So really the only thing you've succeeded in doing is pushing the real culprits more underground. They're going to be more careful now and hide certain things in their profiles and develop new ways to go undercover about the whole thing. So that means if something happens, you are still liable and you have just made it harder on yourself to catch the real criminals. We have you to thank, livejournal. And if my journal gets deleted for "questionable content", you'll have a large legal problem with me on your hands.
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Journal name: Traversed
Location(optional): Illinois
Comment(optional): You have the right idea livejournal, but you're off course in doing anything about it. You have wrongfully deleted journals of innocent people, mostly writers, who have nothing to do with rape, incest, or pedophilia in real life. As a writer I know that writing about something does not mean believing in it too. I write about rape and incest, but I do not approve of it. I write about it because it's true to the story and characters. It's something horrible that they have had to go through and I'm sure many people in real life as well. No where in the United States code of laws does it say that writing about these things is illegal, and according to your TOS, a journal can write about these things but declare that they do not support it. I don't support it. I'm sure many people who have gotten their journals deleted didn't see it so maybe you should bold it so more people see it so they can do it ahead of time.
One of the best things about the United States is freedom of speech and, the way I see it, you are wrongfully taking that freedom away by deleting personal and community journals, where speech lived. If the whole world used that logic, then there would be no novelists like Anne Rice writing about rape and other sexual acts. It would not bode well in real life and by god it will not bode well on the internet either.
I'm not saying you should not stop pedophiles and other illegal activity here, I'm saying that you should really "look before you leap". Actually go the extra mile to interview the persons in question or privately do this and see if they are actual pedophiles. I know many people who may have had certain interests in their profile, either as a joke or because they wrote about it, but I have met them in real life and surely I know that these people are not pedophiles or the like.
Now I'm sure this has gotten all over livejournal. So really the only thing you've succeeded in doing is pushing the real culprits more underground. They're going to be more careful now and hide certain things in their profiles and develop new ways to go undercover about the whole thing. So that means if something happens, you are still liable and you have just made it harder on yourself to catch the real criminals. We have you to thank, livejournal. And if my journal gets deleted for "questionable content", you'll have a large legal problem with me on your hands.