bitterfig ([info]bitterfig) wrote in [info]innocence_jihad,
@ 2007-05-30 10:41:00
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Can Stand Up Will Stand Up

I found this community this morning. I'm cross-posting the entry I made in my personal journal last night. It's more emotional than legalistic but I wanted to share it--

I’ve just been catching up on livejournal f-list after the holiday weekend. Needless to say I am shocked and concerned to learn about the suspension of communities including--

[info]shota  , [info]heterocest  , [info]sbrb_blackcest  , [info]pornish_pixies  , [info]brokenboys  and [info]wonkaslash  as well as others that deal with controversial aspects of sexuality such as incest and child sexuality (usually called chan or shota).

Apparently this purge is due in large part to a group called “Warriors for Innocence” which targets “monsters on the web.”

As a queer, feminist writer who explores the darker aspects of human nature, many of my stories deal with incest, rape, and child molestation. As such, I belonged to and contributed to several of the communities which have been suspended and frankly I’m pretty offended. I don’t like being lumped in with rapists and pedophiles and other “monsters on the web”. There’s a big difference between writing about a very dark but very real subject, often from a point of view emphatic to the victim, and being the perpetrator of a horrendous crime.

There’s been a lot of talk about locking down controversial material and deleting interests but I don’t think that’s the right way to react to this. Don’t hide, fight back. Somehow when I was reading about this controversy, I though of the speech Buffy Summers gives the Slayer army in the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

"Every girl who can stand up will stand up. Every girl who can fight will fight. Every Slayer who will be a Slayer will be a Slayer."

I would urge anyone in fandom who creates or appreciates vital, transgressive art to protest this censorship.

Send an e-mail to feedback@livejournal.com. If you have a paid account by all means point this out. Cold, hard facts, money talks. Let’s use that to our advantage. “Warriors for Innocence” uses pressure tactics, why shouldn’t we?

Click here to view the e-mail I sent feedback@livejournal.com

Click here for actual factual information.


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[info]tresa_cho
2007-05-30 03:55 pm UTC (link)
Watch mentioning their name, I've heard rumors they're searching for mentions of it and they're tracking people that way. I don't want to sound paranoid, but better safe than sorry. :/

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[info]madamjuggernaut
2007-05-30 04:02 pm UTC (link)
I said it in another comment, but--

Not only can LJ get feedback, but so can the ACLU/the Media. CNN loves this kind of thing, to be honest.

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[info]jessicamariek
2007-05-30 07:20 pm UTC (link)
*salivates at the idea of CNN getting this* How would one go about that, I wonder...

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It's in the news!
[info]sakurakessho
2007-05-31 01:46 am UTC (link)
http://news.com.com/Mass+deletion+sparks+LiveJournal+revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html

Just the messenger. I found this page through a news site.

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Re: It's in the news!
[info]bitterfig
2007-05-31 04:13 am UTC (link)
Thanks for the link. It's exciting to be quoted but also sort of scary, I'm a pretty minor blogger and fan fiction writer and this could bring me to the attention of people I'd rather not be noticed by but still, I stand by what I say here and I'm not going to delete or lock down my personal or fiction journals. I honestly don't like a lot of the material I see in my fandoms, but this censorship sets a dangerous precedent and needs to be opposed.

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Re: It's in the news!
[info]shear_logic
2007-05-31 05:37 am UTC (link)
It's all over the place by now.

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get a life
(Anonymous)
2007-05-31 04:09 am UTC (link)
grow up and get a life, its a fucking blog

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Re: get a life
[info]ja_va
2007-05-31 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Today it's a "fucking blog", just wait and tomorrow you'll find yourself in fucking Syberia for kissing in a public place, you idiot.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-31 06:20 am UTC (link)
Bitch bitch bitch.

Is that all you dykes ever do?

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[info]vampyran
2007-05-31 07:55 pm UTC (link)
wtf? what's up with you! You can't even comment under your own name!

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[info]vaguely
2007-05-31 07:46 am UTC (link)
Pornish Pixies?

God, I leave LJ for a few months and it all goes to shit. I hope someone archived those stories; that place was a haven of guilty pleasures for me. Sad face to the extreme.

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[info]everial
2007-05-31 07:44 pm UTC (link)
You acknowledge that LiveJournal does not pre-screen Content, but that LiveJournal and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to remove or refuse to remove any Content that is available through the Service.

From the Terms of Service agreement (http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml).

I find the incitement of the purge distasteful, but I submit that the LJ admins have the right to remove material from servers owned by Six Apart. As you mentioned in your letter to livejournal feedback, you can leave.

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[info]malevolencia
2007-05-31 07:53 pm UTC (link)
Warriors for Innocence... what a crock of crap. You want to keep your kids "innocent"? Home school them, live like the Amish, never let them out of the house, don't allow them to have any outside influence at all - including friends, television, radio, music, movies, books, computers, etc. Of course, then people will call you a child abuser and an unfit parent and throw your pyscho asses in jail.

It's 2007, people. The age of innocence (which, for me, was 1968 - 1976) is LONG GONE. Dream on.

Warriors for Innocence are nothing more than a bunch of miserable parents with nothing better to do. It's clearly just another activist group of yentas who watch Oprah, have kids that suck the life out of them, and have a sense of entitlement 100 miles wide. They're all just pissy that they don't have an outlet for their own issues.

Whiny parents who play the victims to these so-called "monsters" are the exact types of people who have it out for single people with their own thoughts and their own lives. These special interest groups and religious zealots are the ones who get perfectly good television shows yanked off the air and books torn from the shelves because they want to "protect their children".

Hello!? What about people who don't have kids, you preachy bastards!? What about the choice YOU made to have kids in the first place? This is not MY problem, it's YOUR problem, so keep your god damned chocolate out of my peanut butter! They aren't OUR kids, they're YOUR kids... stop taking things away from people who don't have YOUR problems!

Children don't need to be "protected" from what's on a computer. Parents need lessons in responsibility and accountability and to stop fucking blaming other people for their INABILITY to watch over and teach their children!

Welcome to the dark ages. Bring on the book burners. That's always next, of course.

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