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[emmuzka]

So. It looks like Livejournal's new policy is to ban fandom people without contacting them before banning and, instead of striking them through, removing the evidence of them ever existing.

First they say that fandom works are okay.

Then they clarify that actually, it's not okay.

Then they start deleting accounts and removing the evidence. They don't make any announcements over changing the policy on showing the banned people. Nice.

But really, my biggest problem is the one that is probably the most common; I somehow thought that LJ was the internet, and not some regulated commercial service. That I wouldn't have to think about decency issues, that I could write like an adult to other adults. Well. Wrong. I just hope that they stop to where they are now, to their interpretation of what is illegal in the States, and that they don't continue further and Disneyficate the whole thing. If they do, I'm gone.

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[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

What probably irritates me most is the way LJ/6A is doing it: behind our backs. They don't have the guts to come clean and say "no, we don't want you in our sandbox" but instead they just make journals disappear like this was a tv-movie about some third world country. Okay, an overblown comparison but you know what I mean.

That said, I don't think I'll be renewing my paid account when the time comes in December. There's no reason to support this asshattery.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I hate it when LJ goes sneaky. If they "love and value" their users like they claim they do, why they don't announce the changes beforehand? they must know that the fandom a) will notice, and b) will rise a shit storm.

I will be one of those who will follow after most of the people have moved.

I have a permanent account but luckily I can always change it fr the use of my public, non-fandom persona, if it comes to that.