State of the Molehill

[autographedcat]

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
--William Butler Yeats

This latest round in LJ Drama makes me profoundly sad.

That is all.

Comments

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

I think I am one of he few people on my flist who really doesn't care. American case law shows that pornographic images or text about underaged participants are actionable whether the participants are real minors or just imaginary. So if a company just doesn't want to go there, I don't see the problem.

The fact that I find pornography about people younger than my daughter repugnant in the extreme doesn't help either, I suppose.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

The problems aren't with the policies per se (it's their property and they can make rules on how it's run). The problems are with failures to make their policies clear*, enforcement without good-faith efforts to consider the alleged violators' side of the story, and rather unprofessional responses from employees.

*It has been suggested that is related to the fact that if they explicitly modify the Terms of Service, they are required (unded California law, since that's where their corp is set up) to give paid members a refund if they choose to reject the new TOS and leave.