[info]buggery in [info]07refugees

LJ turning against its own defenders?

Does anyone have a screenshot of or remember who posted the top-level content in this thread? As you can see from the responses, the commenter had been defending LJ's actions on the basis that 'fan art depicting UNDERAGED characters in explicit sexual situations is child porn and possibly obscene under US law.'

I doubt it was this comment the user was suspended over, but the fact that someone ostensibly arguing that LJ's inconsistent and baseless 'policy' 'clarifications' are laudable and required in order to comply with the law could themselves be found guilty of a TOS violation, nearly simultaneously with the comment, is surprising.

Depending on the circumstances of the suspension, perhaps this example might even be the wake-up call other LJ users need to get them to to realise that ambiguous and arbitrary policies are a danger to all users, not just some theoretically expendable fringe of fandom.

ETA: Now cross-posted to the fandomtossed community on greatestjournal, here, and the innocence_jihad community on livejournal, here. Thanks to [info]brownbetty for the technical assist.

Comments

maybe a troll

Re: maybe a troll

The suspended user I referenced in this post is definitely not the same as the suspended user(s) in the thread you link to; those comments had already been hidden due to suspension before I ever saw the now-hidden comment whose author I'm asking about.

Good thought, though.

Re: maybe a troll

I think it is the same guy, actually, I recall seeing him replying to both threads. He was a self-admitted troll who also admitted that the journal he was using had been stolen from someone else. Deeply obnoxious person, all told.

Re: maybe a troll

Stealing a journal is a bannable offence, certainly.

I'm still pretty sure the user you're talking about was suspended before I responded to the comment of the now-suspended user I'm talking about, though.

I take it you don't remember the username?

Re: maybe a troll

Both comments were by the same person... I remember them. The guy had a horrible animated icon of a face vomiting and was a horrible troll.

If he's also a journal thief he deserved the ban stick. Some people do...

Re: maybe a troll

I think it was something like "lsboytoy" but not precisely that. I just remember that, when I saw him again on the page after I'd argued with him, I had a "gah, what an ass" reaction and rolled my eyes. He had a reply on page 22, and only 1 reply has been bahleeted on that page, so I'm guessing it was his.

Re: maybe a troll

Correction: hilsboytoy.