http://community.livejournal.com/lj_policy/1227.html

...the lack of notification when an entry has been administratively set to "Explicit Adult Content" is a problem, and we are working on implementing a way to notify you...We also feel it is important that content which has been set as containing "Explicit Adult Content", or "Adult Concepts" clearly indicate that this is the case.
*Appeal for said administrative decision???
And how is the decision decided???
And why are yous crawling through friends-locked posts???
What exactly is an adult concept??? Cursing? Politics? Freedom from your religion? Witches? Lesbians? Bisexuals? Gays? Trans? AIDS? Death? Bad-mouthing Putin? Dissidence??? Revolt? Wank? Thought? Atheism? Secular Humanism? Animal welfare rather than animal rights? Rape? Sexual abuse? Surviving childhood sexual abuse?
If I wanted someone to police my thoughts, I would not have moved away from my mother.

For those who see the adult content lj-cut, we realize they may not see the lj-cut intended by the author of the post. This is something for which we do not have an immediate solution...and are open to any suggestions you might have.
*Here's a suggestion. DUMP IT. Translation: don't. Don't get involved in these petty censorship issues with the right-wing whacKKKos who are trying to dictate their ideas and impose their version of fundamentalist dominionist christianity upon the rest of us. Or is it Putin himself that we are battling???
A couple of words for you: Safe Harbour.

Additionally, we are determining what the best option available is for users who initially entered an incorrect date of birth. As a temporary solution, ...contact coppa@livejournal.com with their username and a copy of any government issued identification which includes a date of birth.
*Other places are content with the use of a credit card as proof of age.
How about just kicking off all the minors who didn't have the sense to lie about their ages when signing up?
And send any of yous a copy of government issued i.d.??? Dream ON.

...our Abuse report form does not properly indicate that our Hate Speech policies apply to members of any sex, gender, or sexual orientation. We assure you this is simply an oversight...the Abuse Prevention Team's Hate Speech policy has, and will continue to apply to these groups.
*That is bogus. NOT GOOD ENUF. The abuse team in my experience is only interested in finding ways to tell us to check the FAQs and not to bother them with any serious issues. Can you say: stalkingharassmentimpersonationhatecrimesanorexicsuicide???

...we feel it is important to give you an update on our plans to resolve these outstanding issues, and welcome any additional feedback you may have on how to further improve the adult content flagging system.
*Additional feedback on how to further improve the adult content flagging system. My feedback is welcome, eh? Here is my feedback: DUMP IT.

For any lj user who has managed to read through this post and gives a shit, sapphoq has accounts at insane journal, commie journal, blogger, multiply.
And for those who don't give a shit about where I will be, I still hope that you will find a better home where free thought is not illusionary.

Finally, on all of this BULLSHIT about how we MUST protect other peoples' little rugrats and not write mean things in our journals:
KISS MY PUTINKIN.

What you people are doing is far more obscene than a few curse words and naughty bits about Harry Potter fucking Draco or Snape or whoever.

And all you people working for Live Journal Inc., in a couple of years when SUP decides to move the offices out of San Francisco, I hope you enjoy living in other countries.

spike


Fuck censorship...Fuck censorship...Fuck censorship...

El Jay Selling Out to a Russian Company

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=22378

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_2008/1343.html#cutid1

Ah ha! Six Apart is selling Live Journal. Perhaps then that is part of the reason for the idiocy that is infesting El Jay these days.

We will see what we see. I don't know if a Russian Company will do better with Live Journal or not.

radical sapphoq watching the lunatics in the hallways

Live Journal Waves Censorship Flags Around Again

Over at http://www.livejournal.com/press/articles.bml , Live Journal in the Press speaks nothing about the latest thing that has gotten many users in a tizzy. All of the articles referred to are from 2003 and 2004. Live Journal and its' dictatorial company Six Apart are both set upon becoming an embarrassment to the cause of freedom of electronica.

Users are now being asked to flag each others' journals for content that is adult sexy, adult themes, hate speech [with sexual orientation left out-- shame on you El Gay], offensive and one other category that I cannot think of right now. There is an inherent bias in all of this. If journals containing g.l.b.t.i.q. content are flagged, there won't be too many eyebrows raised. And witches-- lots of people don't want the witches around either. Filthy non-god heathens, atheists, sex outside of marriage, gasp drugs, rape memories...the list goes on. I propose adding dominionists and revisionists to the list. And that is the problem inherent in believing "in self-expression." There is always a risk that some folks are bound to express themselves in ways that at least one of us will not care for. And what the hel ever happened to parents supervising their kids on the net???

The post which is supposed to answer concerns expressed about the so-called flagging uh actually censorship-of-others tools found here at http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/243946.html doesn't. The promise made several months ago of clear policies and definitions remains un-addressed.

From http://www.livejournal.com/site/about.bml the reader is told that the "we" of Live Journal believes in self-expression and diversity. To that I can only say, ,sarcasm> "Yeah, right. Walk this way to see the bridge I got for sale in Brooklyn." < /sarcasm>.

sapphoq says: The machinations of Six Apart are truly something to watch. Hey if El Jay wants to become vanilla, El Jay will have to do that without any more help from my bisexual bucks. I am currently cross-posting to Insane Journal. And Commie Journal is looking better daily. Yahell 360, another great defender of censorship, is going under on January 31, 2008. Maybe I will live long enough to see Live Journal go the way of 360.

*radical sapphoq opposing censorship over and out*

http://nebris.livejournal.com/2638077.html

http://victoria-lane.livejournal.com/1249934.html

http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=1098177&mode=enter

Flag it. Offensive Content.
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/243697.html?page=1#comments

http://sivullinen.livejournal.com/124283.html

http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/

http://delphinios.livejournal.com/176516.html

http://stewardess.livejournal.com/282189.html

http://witchqueen.livejournal.com/422180.html

http://elfwreck.livejournal.com/225654.html

http://nikolasco.livejournal.com/392213.html

http://stewardess.livejournal.com/282506.html?view=5778314#t5778314

Professor Dumbledore and Unrequited Love

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
Dwight David EISENHOWER
American general and 34th President of the United States (1890–1969)



The J.K. Rowling fictional series regarding a young male wizard and his adventures during his school years while attending a school of magic remains the most challenged books of this century. J.K. announcing at Carnegie Hall that Dumbledore was gay may not help her books remain on the shelves of sectarian libraries everywhere. Nor does it do much in my opinion to further [or detract from] the issues that gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer, and questioning deal with in everyday living. With gay bashings and hate crimes flourishing in a nearby county and the continued assault on civil rights for non-heterosexuals in the United States, I find it difficult to care that a fictional character is a homosexual. Nothing in the books themselves-- aimed at a primarily juvenile audience-- addressed Dumbledore's sexual orientation. There were no mentions of a lover and no steamy sex scenes. When I was engrossed in the books and the movies, I spent zero time analyzing which characters might not be straight. I didn't care. Perhaps that makes me less of an activist for the variety of causes for the community of which I am a part. So go ahead, try to rip my radical identification card out of my pagan bisexual hands. It won't work yanno. But don't despair just yet. After all, the hetero-or-die crowd can still rejoice that both hockey and Iran are safe from the likes of us. Bully for them!

An article appearing in the Boston Globe yesterday indicated that a parochial school priest removed the Harry Potter book series from the school library. An article in the Salt Lake Tribune drew a distinction between the ability to rightly decide between reading material that may or may not be appropriate for oneself and one's legal charges [read: children] and the allergies that public institutions [read: public libraries] have to folks challenging reading material for all patrons of the public institution. St. Joseph's School in Massachusetts is not a public institution and so the priest was acting within his office to do as he wished with the Potter books.
If a priest wishes to believe that Hogwarts accurately portrays what witchcraft is about, he obviously is vastly *unfamiliar* with real circle work. Young Harry Potter fans everywhere can sleep at night comfortable in the knowledge that reading a book or watching a movie cannot convert one to either witchcraft or to *falling in love with someone who happens to share the same gender* that they do.
Kinda makes one wonder about the priest though.

Did a chord resonate deep within when young Harry's wand picked him at Ollivander's in Diagon Alley? Or was there a sort of crush on the fictional Dumbledore who for all his cavorting with Harry demonstrated not one molecule of misplaced pedophilic affection? Or a fantasy of the old tottering wizard showing up at the rectory to rectify some misunderstanding regarding the difference between pedophilia and gay love, between fictional and human children [something which those who run Live Journal still show evidence of confusing], between the transfiguration of Professor McGonagall from a feline sitting on a desk and the transubstantiation of blood to wine and body to wafer? Alas, how does one measure accurately the differences between fantasy and reality?

Dumbledore is gay [and dead too], unlike the entire country of Iran and all hockey teams where nary a gay can be found. Hatred is real and has direct and sometimes bloody consequences. J.K. is worth a cool four mil and pedoheads will continue to gather in chat rooms strung out across electronica. In comparison to the news of the day, the announcement of Dumbledore's gayness is hardly worth all the fuss it has been stirring up. I remain a staunch advocate of civil rights for all civils. The vids on YouTube will continue to amuse me at random intervals. No real or imaginary children were harmed in the typing of this blog post.

radical sapphoq