Name/Alias: Danielle Journal name:awritersfantasy Location(optional): Connecticut Comment(optional): Like many others, I do not personally condone things such as rape, incest, sexual abuse, etc. and I am all for supporting the people who have had to go through those things. However, while you, LJ, are trying to support them in a way yourselves by making LJ safe, you've contradicted things a bit. You're trying to protect victims of those things, or potential victims of them, yet you're deleting support groups for those victim simply because they have interests like "rape" and "incest" listed in their profiles. I would think that you would be HAPPY that such groups exist. You didn't even bother looking in to half of the communities and accounts that were deleted, you just simply said that anything listing things like "rape" or "incest" as interests needed to be deleted. You took away probably the only safe havens victims of those things have. People felt secure going to those places and receiving comfort from victims who've been in the same situations as them. And now where can they turn to? Sure there are other places off of LJ for such things, but the fact remains that they had LJ in the first place for it, and now those havens are gone.
Fiction=/=reality. A large percentage of the users on Livejournal are here for the fanbase, because they can find people of common interest. If someone lists a male/male fictional pairing in their interests, then that does not mean they are actually in to incest/rape/etc, but that they only like it for fictional purposes.
If you're going to continue going through with this, do it right. Make sure you double check the community or journal and see what it's all about before you assume that the maintainers and members are instantly either pedophiles themselves or supporters of pedophiles. There's a saying for people who assume things. Think about it.
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Comment(optional): Like many others, I do not personally condone things such as rape, incest, sexual abuse, etc. and I am all for supporting the people who have had to go through those things. However, while you, LJ, are trying to support them in a way yourselves by making LJ safe, you've contradicted things a bit. You're trying to protect victims of those things, or potential victims of them, yet you're deleting support groups for those victim simply because they have interests like "rape" and "incest" listed in their profiles. I would think that you would be HAPPY that such groups exist. You didn't even bother looking in to half of the communities and accounts that were deleted, you just simply said that anything listing things like "rape" or "incest" as interests needed to be deleted. You took away probably the only safe havens victims of those things have. People felt secure going to those places and receiving comfort from victims who've been in the same situations as them. And now where can they turn to? Sure there are other places off of LJ for such things, but the fact remains that they had LJ in the first place for it, and now those havens are gone.
Fiction=/=reality. A large percentage of the users on Livejournal are here for the fanbase, because they can find people of common interest. If someone lists a male/male fictional pairing in their interests, then that does not mean they are actually in to incest/rape/etc, but that they only like it for fictional purposes.
If you're going to continue going through with this, do it right. Make sure you double check the community or journal and see what it's all about before you assume that the maintainers and members are instantly either pedophiles themselves or supporters of pedophiles. There's a saying for people who assume things. Think about it.