SixApart, this will not stand.



We, as fans, as fandom, have a far greater collective voice than we realise. Together, my friends, we are mighty. There are rumblings afoot to start a co-ordinated push back - faxes, letters, phonecalls - to press for a change in policy. To wit: allowing the poor sods at the LJ Abuse Team to use their own discretion in distinguishing between communities/journals that depict or discuss criminal activity in a purely fictional context (ie, fannish communities), and survivor support groups (several of which have also been permanently suspended as a result of this affair), versus communities/journals that genuinely promote and encourage criminal behaviour. I have tabs open and journals tracked; I will update when I know more.

Until then, I ask all of you: please stop giving SixApart your money. Turn off your automatic payments. Do not manually renew paid accounts or userpics. Do not buy a permanent account. Deny them advertising revenue by turning Plus accounts back to Basic.

When the organised push back comes, for it to have effect, SixApart need to truly realise just how much money they stand to lose if they only listen to their legal counsel, and not their customers; if they allow a wing-nut group's report to drive them to delete communities like lolita07 - a Spanish group for discussion of the Nabokov novel.

SixApart: until you reverse your policy, you will have to do without my pennies.

ETA: In the meantime, there are two comms devoted to centralised discussion of the issue: innocence_jihad and fandomtossed, the feed for the GreatestJournal comm.

quixoticfemme, liz_marcs, and bookshop are good fonts of information, and one of the best collections of links so far is here on Fandomtossed. Keep an eye on fandom_lawyers as well.

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