6A/LJ's Response

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I'm sure everyone and their mom will see this in the morning, but for anyone who's awake now:
Six Apart's CEO apparently has something to say.

eta: Frankly, this was very close to the Best Projected Response I felt we could hope for. The entire fiasco is framed as a mistake, something they're heartily sorry for. What I don't see is a) anything like a promise ensuring they'll never do anything like that again, and b) [in addition to the admission that they want to keep the comms and users trying to "prevent and understand" things such as rape and incest] an explicit admission that comms and users that portray these things in fictional settings for fictional purposes will not be targeted.

I'm still not giving LJ any money. I'm still going to write my snail mail letters. I'm still going to harp on about acting, so that we can make sure this never happens again.

I'm keeping my account at GreaterJournal. I'm keeping my voice. And I am keeping my outrage.

I'm forgiving. But I'm not forgetting.

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Comments

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I feel like I understand *why* they skirted the fiction issue. There's a very definite side of an indefinite fence where certain kinds of people writing certain kinds of things for certain audiences is just WRONG (pedophiles on the net, for instance). But that's their perogative, and mine to leave whenever I feel my personal rights as a human being are being infringed upon.

A person's first "mistake" (this is LJ's first real mistake for me) I would just say let's shake and forget about it. But as you point out this is a business and we have to deal with each other in terms of exchange. So I'm definitely going to withhold certain things, and continue to speak out. Hopefully others will too and that will prevent this from happening in the future.

Thank you for your thoughts, as well!