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

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Me, too.

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

*hugs* just cuz

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

It doesn't me, and I'll tell you why. This is the first round where I've seen people actually doing stuff about it rather than just whining... putting their code and their hardware where their keyboards are. It'll be pretty darn cool if it works out...

[telynor.livejournal.com]

I agree.

*smooch*

[poltr1]

Aye.

I'm trying to see both sides of the issue, and I'm getting tired of the flame wars that have been erupting over this.

blissfully unaware

[ketzl.livejournal.com]

What's the issue?

[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.

[allisona.livejournal.com]

I agree :(.

I'm trying to be sympathetic and understanding to appropriate sides, but really I'm just fearful we're about to lose a really wonderful on-line community that isn't going to reform as well or better in any other idealized place.

Time will tell.