All this stuff
May. 31st, 2007 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamflowerWell, everyone else just about, seems to have weighed in with their opinions on LJ's actions over the weekend. My two cents, behind a cut, in case you are sick of the whole topic...
I never was worried about my own LJ. My interests are just about as bland and gen as you can get. But I have a lot of people friended who are more daring than I am, and I was worried about suddenly finding a lot of them suddenly gone--I mean, I hardly ever trim my *own* flist, I'd be furious to find someone else had done it *for* me!
And there is the principal of the thing. Of course I don't want to see child molesters out there trolling for kids or encouraging one another in their crimes, but the manner in which dealing with the complaint was gone about was ridiculous overkill--kind of like killing a cockroach by blowing up the entire house. True, what LJ did was not technically censorship--they aren't the government, after all--but it still had a chilling effect on free speech.
Also, I hated seeing how many of my friends were/are panicking over this, seeing them frightened and stressed ticks me off.
I love LJ, and as long as it's here, and my friends are still here, I'll still be doing my thing the same way I always have. But I'll have my eyes open a little more.
I do like the idea of backing up my LJ, just as a matter of insurance, but I can't seem to get that archive thingy to work for me. 8-(
I never was worried about my own LJ. My interests are just about as bland and gen as you can get. But I have a lot of people friended who are more daring than I am, and I was worried about suddenly finding a lot of them suddenly gone--I mean, I hardly ever trim my *own* flist, I'd be furious to find someone else had done it *for* me!
And there is the principal of the thing. Of course I don't want to see child molesters out there trolling for kids or encouraging one another in their crimes, but the manner in which dealing with the complaint was gone about was ridiculous overkill--kind of like killing a cockroach by blowing up the entire house. True, what LJ did was not technically censorship--they aren't the government, after all--but it still had a chilling effect on free speech.
Also, I hated seeing how many of my friends were/are panicking over this, seeing them frightened and stressed ticks me off.
I love LJ, and as long as it's here, and my friends are still here, I'll still be doing my thing the same way I always have. But I'll have my eyes open a little more.
I do like the idea of backing up my LJ, just as a matter of insurance, but I can't seem to get that archive thingy to work for me. 8-(
