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CNN article on internet freedom of speech

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Here's an article on Internet Freedom of Speech that mentions the 07 debacle on LJ. Admittedly, they have glossed over or or erred on some details. However, beyond picking at the specific context, it's generally an interesting look at speech issues on the net. The piece makes an excellent point about the social significance of being expelled from a community like LJ or MySpace, among other things.

Posted on Jul. 8th, 2008 at 06:59 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]stewardess

Someone should tell the author of that article that LJ, after restoring the suspended journals, began to delete them again, slowly, beginning in August 2007. See this entry for the full list:

http://mishalak.livejournal.com/431058.html?format=light

Some of the restored people deleted themselves, but, as their self-censorship was fallout from the mass suspensions, LJ is directly responsible for those deletions, too. Particularly since LJ restored some journals so they could discover (and then purge) associated journals (linked by email addresses and IPs), something they couldn't do while the accounts were in a suspended status. Word of the "restored just so we can hunt down all your friends" LJ plan spread quickly. Note that the individual journals are almost 100% gone as of today.
Posted on Jul. 8th, 2008 08:43 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

Forgot to mention: that many suspended/restored people later deleted themselves supports the article's point about "To evict a user from an online community would be like banishing that person to the outskirts of town." Once those personal journals were publicly smeared with the label of pedophile, the owners were screwed.
Posted on Jul. 8th, 2008 08:49 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply