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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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Heh, I've just started a petition on my lj. :)

i am so glad to see someone actually doing something constructive about this instead of generic whinging.

i salute and support you.

...i'd be doing the same, if i didn't have a permanent account and hadn't just put two extra months on my rp account the night before last. and to *think* i was actually going to buy more userpics for my rp account because i got in an icon war with it last night, but because of what happened today, i actually had to *delete* a bunch of icons from it because they were 'questionable'. >/

...anyway, i just wanted to say thumbs up; i'm glad to see someone doing something about this other than whining.

Signal duly passed along.

Remember that Plus accounts should be turned into Basic, as well, because it's not just about giving Six Apart your personal money anymore.

You are very right. *edits into post*

Where can I find more information about what's going on with this. I haven't heard anything about it at all. Thanks!

I did the same thing last night. :D
added you to my growing list

http://del.icio.us/imaginarycircus/lj?setcount=100

Sadly, SA won't be getting my $150 for a permanent account.

...is it sad that, also, I went, "Oh, hey, look, there's me! :D" at your screencap? *facepalms*