Deleted: The controversy
Many LJ users found their journals gone. Why? The
Wariors For Innocence went hunting for pedophiles.
Which is a good thing.
The Bad thing is in order to calm the pressures from
WFI the staff at Six Apart went over board.
Deleting journals by a quick scan of interests.
Journals which had words like “Lolita” were deleted.
Completely over looking that “Lolita” is a classic
novel and a fashion style. Now, I know this because my
journal was temporarily deleted because of my interest
in Lolita. My journal did not (and still does not)
depict sex with minors.
Instead, three years ago, I wrote a nationaly
published paper on the book. After digging and
searching the net for the article and submiting to the
staff at Live Journal they undeleted my journal.
WFI claims only LJs with content against TOS were
deleted, this is simply false. The Warriors for
Innocence, comprising of only three people, also went
on to show no remorse for journals deleted, some of
which were around since Live Journal began. Many have
responded to this in outrage, to which the WFI has
callously responded that it’s not their fault when
someone loses their journal “while failing to
acknowledge that they had not only not backed it up in
years, but had been blatantly violating LJ’s TOS for
years.”
Who backs up an online journal? Not many! Fewer if the
journal has been there for years!
They do not realize that in pressuring Live Journal
they will cause live journal to overreact.
While I do not condone a right to discuss pedophilia
as a life style, I am saying both parties could’ve
handled it better instead of jumping the gun and
deleting anything “questionable.”
A rape survivor’s journal should not be deleted; she
was just trying to heal by finding “facless” support.
Icons shouldn’t be grounds for this war on pedophelia
as in the case with one woman who has an icon of her
child but visits the “fetishconfess” community and
uses a different icon entirely.
If anything, the Warriors for Innocence do have one
thing right, this is a war. And, with all wars, there
are bound to be plenty of innocent casualties and
collateral damage.