At the same time, they've cast such a wide English-specific net across the international LiveJournal site, they've gotten things such a community that mentioned Lolita as an interest and had it in the name. Normally, no big deal, right? Except it was a foreign-language community discussing a novel by the same name.
Or a roleplaying journal for a fictional 'villian' in a multi-hundred-journal-miniverse that listed 'kidnapping' and 'incest' as an interest. But never touched on any of the topics in the actual entries or stories posted there. They'd merely filled out the 'interest' field to provide a bit stronger backstory for the character, but had no interest or intention of ever RPing such elements directly.
This is less about 'free speech versus porn' and more about how a vigilante group is trying (and apparently managing to be successful) at force-feeding English-keyword censorship of the harshest nature (Get tagged? Lose your entire journal forever, you can't get the comments back, only the actual posts, no recourse. That is LJ/SixApart's current stance.) on a website that has a very large non-English-speaking contingent. And many of the keywords are harmless in many of the other languages the site is used in, and in fact makes tools available for ease of use in those very same languages.
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Re: Actually they're the ones that caused it.
Date: 2007-05-30 10:11 pm (UTC)Or a roleplaying journal for a fictional 'villian' in a multi-hundred-journal-miniverse that listed 'kidnapping' and 'incest' as an interest. But never touched on any of the topics in the actual entries or stories posted there. They'd merely filled out the 'interest' field to provide a bit stronger backstory for the character, but had no interest or intention of ever RPing such elements directly.
This is less about 'free speech versus porn' and more about how a vigilante group is trying (and apparently managing to be successful) at force-feeding English-keyword censorship of the harshest nature (Get tagged? Lose your entire journal forever, you can't get the comments back, only the actual posts, no recourse. That is LJ/SixApart's current stance.) on a website that has a very large non-English-speaking contingent. And many of the keywords are harmless in many of the other languages the site is used in, and in fact makes tools available for ease of use in those very same languages.