[ you must chill ]

[winterlive]

everybody knows i love freedom of expression.

this ain't it. (link is nsfw and also pretty despicable, imho.)

maybe we'll all pick up and wander off or whatever. maybe fandom will decide to go all haywire and make their own space on the web, maybe we'll all have to uproot ourselves and exodus from the reign of stinky stinky six apart. but let's not make martyrs out of molehills, okay?


eta: in case i was somehow unclear, the following two things are true:
1. i find that image repulsive. personally, ethically, ugh. i also find rapefic, bestiality and torture to be by and large repulsive.
2. i cannot fault lj for banning it because it's illegal. i do not support the banning of any user over the perceived offensiveness of their material, only its legality.

eta II, much after the fact: i see that people are still keen to talk this one over. good for you. it's good to keep informed. but just so you know, a lot of information came out between the time this was posted and the three days later that some of this conversation is happening in. we know more things now, things have been confirmed, proven false, proven different. i therefore stand by two things i said in the original post: 1. sixapart stinks, and 2. you must, MUST chill. i stand by all things said in the first ETA.

Comments

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

wrenlet quoted this statute (http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001466---A000-.html), which seems pretty damn clear.

now, again, this is not to say that 6A are in any way conducting themselves decently with this shit. they're not. they're being little assholes about it, actually. but. i just think it's important we keep our heads on, here.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And the other one who got banned apparently didn't have anything that underage *and* was under flock. That does not sit well with me, along with lj/6a's inability to do things logically in any sense of the word.

There might be reasons. I've heard several rumors that the WB got involved, although details I am very short on. But yeah. We don't know yet.

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

and we shouldn't act until we do. that's what i'm saying.

unless of course we're waiting until fucking christmas, like before.