fandom_counts just broke 20,000 members.

(From a little over 18,000 when I woke up this morning - about two hours ago.)

Be heard, guys. If even half the people who were moved enough by 6A's actions to join do just one thing each, that is ten thousand voices saying stop, and we will not be censored.

Keep joining, and stay tuned.

ETA: And here we go.

sevenfandomdays, for deciding on, organising, and promoting seven days of fandom action to make our voices heard by 6A and LJ.

Spread the word far, and fast.

See here and here for good lists of links on the entire Strikethrough 07 débacle, follow fandomtossed and innocence_jihad for updates, and see a staggeringly huge (full?) list of LJ-suspended journals and communities here. Strikethrough 07 has also made it to:
Firefox News
Warren Ellis
Whedonesque
Fark
CNet
BoingBoing
Slashdot
The front page of Digg's technology page (after a time on the front page proper).

For those of you as yet unaware, although the Livejournal community has yet to receive any kind of official response from 6A, the CEO of 6A found time to give an interview to CNet. From the article linked above:

"We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn't think met our policies and didn't think they were appropriate to have up," Barak Berkowitz, chairman and chief executive of Six Apart, said in a telephone interview. The site boasts about 13 million journals.
[...]
Legal experts say LiveJournal is clearly not liable for fictional stories and related discussions posted by its users, thanks to a 1996 federal law immunizing Web-based discussion forums from lawsuits. "If the content is otherwise legal, then LiveJournal has no obligation to police its site or remove any legal content it finds," said Eric Goldman, who teaches at the Santa Clara University School of Law.

"Our decision here was not based on pure legal issues," countered Six Apart's Berkowitz. "It was based on what community we want to build and what we think is appropriate within that community and what's not. We have an awful broad range of discussions and topics and other things going on in LiveJournal, and we encourage other broad-ranging conversations on all sorts of topics. This was a specific case where we felt there was not a reason (for these journals to stay online)."

Berkowitz said the company would "obviously apologize" to anyone whose journal was deleted in error but added: "That's going to be a very small minority of the sites. I would be shocked if it's more than a dozen."

Another issue we needed to deal with was journals that used a thin veneer of fictional or academic interest in events and storylines that include child rape, pedophilia, and similar themes in order to actually promote these activities. While there are stories, essays, and discussions that include discussion of these issues in an effort to understand and prevent them, others use a pretext to promote these activities. It’s often very hard to tell the difference. As such, we have suspended reported journals that do not clearly and substantially object to these activities while at the same time portraying them.

*SCREAMS FULL OF. RAGEFUL. ANGRY. SCREAMS*

Barak Berkowitz, you are a tool.

;klaz.zfsdhjek;DLFKjl.kre;

TLvop: ...
TLvop: the CEO person
TLvop: His default icon is labelled "defualt"
scuba soph: ................
bookelfe: GENIUS