Migrants to IJ, 2007

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I thought I would chime in here a bit. There may be legal reasons they are making these changes.

I attended a legal class recently on blogs and the liability for the site owner. A lot of sites have been relying on a case law interpretation of the CDA Safe Harbor as providing them blanket immunity from content that users publish on their site. However, there have been recent decisions to limit the scope of that law, at least as the presenters saw it. They feel recent decision leave sites open for liability in certain cases where the content is more questionable/flagrant. The feel the court is moving towards relying on a more middle of the road interpretation of this law. That means that there are arguments lawyers can use to reasonably file their cases against a site like LJ.

It seems like LJ is reacting to a narrow understanding of these decisions and is not willing to defend itself to allow a broader type of content on its servers. That does not reassure me as a user.

Personally, I'm not sure how they expect people to post their content again there. There will always be competing interests.