Strikethrough '07
Jun. 3rd, 2007 04:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ishtar79After reading countless posts on the topics in what feels like every single journaling site out there, not to mention braving most of the comments in the <lj user=news> post, what I'm left for is more confusion, a vague sense of anger, and a *killer* headache-though I'm sure the latter is at least partially to blame on my epic hangover (and just so you know, tequila and absinthe? Should NEVER be mixed). And on that note, people who are equating pedophilia to a 'sexual orientation'? Stop it. Just...stop it.
I opened up an account on InsaneJournal and still have a GJ account from the great LJ disappearance from a while back (and man, the current mess is making me almost *nostalgic* of those simpler times). But honestly, I believe it was a futile gesture-I don't see fandom en masse migrating any time soon, and to be honest, it'd probably love to see that avoided, but the likelihood ofour corporate Overlords Six Apart turning a new leaf and not causing even bigger problems for fandom in the future is not looking so hot right now. Maybe I'm being cynical. Or maybe it's the fact that they're still lying through their teeth (case in point: <lj user=riddle_torture> is still suspended, and other fannish coms/ljs are too. So don't break out the bubbly quite yet).
I'm torn between being frustrated that a large part of fandom is just dusting themselves off and considering the case closed, until How Six Apart Made Fandom Its Bitch: The Next Episode and being annoyed with some of the MASSIVE overreactions I've been seeing in the <lj user=news> posts. Yes, the situation is unacceptable, yes, no satisfactory reply has been given, plenty of LJs are still suspended when they shouldn't, and there has been NO indication that the very same thing, or something worse, won't happen to us again. But drawing out the Holocaust comparisons and talking about how traumatic the whole thing is is tacky, and not helping with not making fandom look like nutjobs to the general population.
I opened up an account on InsaneJournal and still have a GJ account from the great LJ disappearance from a while back (and man, the current mess is making me almost *nostalgic* of those simpler times). But honestly, I believe it was a futile gesture-I don't see fandom en masse migrating any time soon, and to be honest, it'd probably love to see that avoided, but the likelihood of
I'm torn between being frustrated that a large part of fandom is just dusting themselves off and considering the case closed, until How Six Apart Made Fandom Its Bitch: The Next Episode and being annoyed with some of the MASSIVE overreactions I've been seeing in the <lj user=news> posts. Yes, the situation is unacceptable, yes, no satisfactory reply has been given, plenty of LJs are still suspended when they shouldn't, and there has been NO indication that the very same thing, or something worse, won't happen to us again. But drawing out the Holocaust comparisons and talking about how traumatic the whole thing is is tacky, and not helping with not making fandom look like nutjobs to the general population.
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Date: 2007-06-04 02:34 pm (UTC)Plenty of net news resources reported it, as well as some mainstream news. Of course, often it's along the lines off 'HP fans fight to protect their child porn'. *facepalm*
Certainly nothing that warrants Holocaust comparisons, but you know it always starts with burning books.
Oh, I get that. Except that some people are actually quoting the "First they came for the communists..." poem without a shred of irony.
It sucks about riddle_torture, since it doesn't contain anything more objectionable than a lot of fanfic coms.
And mixing tequila and absinthe? That is just wrong! As bad as rum & coke.
Not mixing as in 'in one drink'! It went more tequila, absinthe, absinthe, tequila, blackout.