Because I'm your fan

[lolaraincoat]

I set myself up at Greatestjournal a few years ago when LJ was down for a few days. Now at least the fannish half of my f'list here seems to be migrating in that direction, or in many directions really, because LJ has been banning users whose content they don't like (depictions of fictional characters who appear to be under 18 having sex.)

I'm undecided about what to do - stay here but read journals on three or four other sites? move most of my posting over there but keep reading journals here? something else entirely? There's a fan-run not-for-profit journaling site currently in beta-testing, so that will be a good option soon but not yet. But I don't want to lose track of you while I dither. So! If I have you friended here, and you have set yourself up at Greatestjournal, and I haven't yet friended you there, it's because I haven't found you. Please ping me and let me know your username there. And if you're migrating to some other journal but not Greatestjournal, please let me know that as well. I don't want to lose track of you all!

cubby66, dailyplanet, mulberryfields, stillwell, slit, t_ktl, telurian: THIS MEANS YOU.

Comments

[florahart]

Well, yes, but once banned, the email says you can't even make another LJ here, here if a number of fairly prolific or well-known authors get banned, then there will probably be moving.

The written word is more protected than the art, but honestly, I have posted... I have no idea how many fics. I'm guessing several hundred--for instance, I have 68 posts at pornish. If ONE of those, even one written as crack in January of 2004 or, say, the series of TriWizard limericks from November 2005, gets reported and deemed underage/obscene (and actually, I reckon it's the teeny ones like limericks and drabbles that's more likely to happen to because they are more likely to be deemed without literary merit), all that goes. Personally, I'm all for taking action to prevent that from happening. Heh.

It is true all sites will have to follow the law. It is not true they will all choose to interpret "obscene" the same way, or that they will all choose to choose the interpretation of child porn to mean drawn images (which were, as recently as 18 months ago,explicitly protected as NOT child porn). LJ isn't responsible for the laws, but I do hold them accountable for how they are choosing to interpret them and why (sponsors).

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I wasn't clear--when I said "journal by journal" I didn't mean Fan X and then Fan Y, but from LiveJournal (the most established) to Greatest Journal, Insane Journal, etc.