*sigh*

[mandolin]

*catches up on friends list*

*boggles*

If I could express the mother of all facepalms here, I would.

(For those not in the know, there's a sudden onslaught of LJ account suspensions - a lot of fandom accounts are being inaccurately reported as being in violation of LJ's TOS, and Six Apart is flailing over liability fears. You can find a detailed information post on the subject here. A lot of the deletions seem to be solely based on interests.)

ETA: Rumor has it that the Warriors For Innocence site (which I am NOT LINKING HERE) is laden with spyware. If you go through the informational posts, avoid going to that site.

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Yeah, I found it kind of amusing that Perverted Justice mocked LJ's mad panic suspensions. And despite the blanket suspensions, they apparently missed some accounts that were actually reported as dangerous.

Really, they just proved PeeJ's earlier claim that LJ doesn't bother to examine the contents of accounts reported to them.

I'm not getting up in arms about this, I'm mostly facepalming over the wank, and my real issue is that LJ handled the abuse issues in a half-assed manner and only when their legal team pointed out that *gasp* they could be sued. Not only that, they sat on the issue and let it build up into mass panic before finally issuing a statement. I suspect that had the news post gone up three hours earlier, there'd be a lot less people leaving LJ. But they talked to the press first, the community last, and they let the panic and anger fester.

It's just all a mess.