Fool me once...

[kangeiko]

Here's the thing.

6A/LJ are homophobic asshats. No, you're not paying attention. THEY'RE HOMOPHOBIC ASSHATS.

The recent furore over so-called child pornography (read = anything reported by Warriors for Innocence, which included role-playing journals, anything featuring explicit artwork of any kind, any questionable fic featuring things such as incest etc, even literary studies journals focusing on novels such as Lolita) and the mass strikeout of journals led to 6A/LJ backpedalling furiously to win back their users, with promises that only those journals that actually featured/promoted child pornography would be 1) examined, and 2) dealt with.

Yesterday, ponderosa121's account was permanently suspended. Why? Because of a piece of artwork depicting an adult Harry and Snape in a sexual position. Let me stress this: she drew a graphic sex scene between two consenting adults, and posted it to an adult community. And her account was summarily removed. It wasn't even striken through, was it? No, because they'd we'd notice, and the lj-strikeout would continue. Instead, if you'll look at how her username now shows up -

... Well. I, for one, am not content to sit around and wait to be erased from existence by homophobic fuckwits.

I AM CALLING FOR 6A/LJ TO OFFER THE 'REFUND' OPTION TO ALL PAID AND PERMANENT ACCOUNT HOLDERS THAT WANT TO LEAVE AS A RESULT OF THIS LATEST RUN-AROUND.

I, for one, do not want to stay here for a moment longer than necessary. Who wants to test how long it is before their particular interpretation of 'obscenity' comes to include all slash and adult fanfic and fanart?

Useful links:
- bookshop summarises what's happening here.
- update from Ponderosa on her GL here.
- Fight back for the artists!

ETA: aaaand... due to LJ's 'no linkings, ZOMG!!' policy, I've had to remove the link to ponderosa's work. Because two men going at it might shock you into deviant practices. Obviously.

Comments

[kayliemalinza.livejournal.com]

God fucking dammit. Shitwhore. Cuntfucker.


Weren't we OVER this?

[kangeiko]

fandom_flies, love. Time to leave the nest.

[kayliemalinza.livejournal.com]

I spent the past few hours starting IJ and GJ accounts and transferring everything over, and archiving my personal LJ. I still need to figure out how to archive individual entries on a comm (my fanfic at sparrington, mostly) but that may wait until tomorrow. I'm figuring out Semagic right now.

I really like the ideas going around about our own site, and I'm willing to put down hard cash to make that happen.

[kangeiko]

I know! I mean, a whole bunch of people were saying how it was going to be the same on all other websites, which I totally didn't get. I mean, if fandom is running it... *le sigh*

Anyway. If nothing else, I want someplace where management does not contribute to the wank quite so regularly...

[kayliemalinza.livejournal.com]

Did you know you've been linked (http://community.livejournal.com/metafandom/130312.html) on metafandom? And my filthy comment is one of the first things everyone sees, hee.

[kangeiko]

Hee!

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Heh. Let me know if any of them react to your call for refunds.

[kangeiko]

Well, I've sent an official complaint in to them - "I do not wish to be affiliated with a company that has such homophobic policies and violates its own ToS" etc - and will move on to the offices of fair trading from then on...

Seriosuly, this has me pissed off enough to keep at it.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

In that case, *seriously*, let me know if something happens.

I'm off to check that fandom flies comm.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

If they were likely to give out refunds, they wouldn't have done anything that warranted a refund in the first place. Asking is a waste of pixels.

However. LJ has committed a type of fraud known as 'bait and switch' (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/240498.html?thread=11841906#t11841906). There are both criminal-court (via the attorney general and/or consumer protection agency for the state a U.S. user resides in) and civil court (via a class-action lawsuit) options for holding 6A responsible for profiting from their lies..