Our number one goal is to encourage and promote a free and open community. We will only intervene to the extent needed to avoid the site being used as a vehicle for illegal activities. The policies are simple.
- We do not review content until it is reported to us.
- With regards to illegal or harmful content, our policies are:
- No illegal content. There is little content that is truly illegal in the United States but it is an important note that SOME content does violate the laws of the United States where our data is kept. Child pornography is a clear example.
- No content that is created to plan, encourage, or advocate hate crimes, the abuse of children, or rape. I understand that there may be some that believe that the advocacy of these things may be valid discussion, but we simply do not have an interest in hosting this type of content.
- No content which is meant to plan, solicit the commission of, seek customers for, or provide instructions for serious illegal activities which could cause harm to others.
- Political, philosophical, religious and artistic discussion is encouraged and protected as long as it does not violate any of the guidelines listed above.
Your profile is part of your journal. If your profile, taken as a whole, breaks these policies, we will treat it the same as if it were in an entry or comment. For years, we have had these policies, but there were aspects of them that were not as clear as desired. We are making no major policy changes, we have made no changes to the TOS, and we do not anticipate making any changes in the future.
We are also reviewing our internal procedures and the communications we use to explain those procedures. We will also work on ways to make it easier for the community to report abusive or offensive content. I hope this makes things a lot clearer for everyone.
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June 21 2007, 02:16:26 UTC 4 years ago
I still think you really ought to postpone the paid sale until you've given yourselves time to regain the trust. Or possibly do it near the holidays?
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June 21 2007, 03:50:28 UTC 4 years ago
Hehhhhhhhhh.
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June 21 2007, 02:21:47 UTC 4 years ago
I think this policy will work pretty well, with user feedback, and think I feel a lot more comfortable about buying a permanent account now.
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June 21 2007, 02:22:19 UTC 4 years ago
And who determines what is "serious?"
Reading this, one could make a case that no content regarding S&M, BDSM, et al would be permitted as it "could cause harm to others," consensual or not and is illegal in many locals.
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June 21 2007, 02:23:05 UTC 4 years ago
So, does "interests" mean "interests" or does it mean 'like' in your world? Your second to last paragraph only almost addresses this.
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June 21 2007, 02:24:14 UTC 4 years ago
I'm sure you are aware that your gross mishandling of this in the past gives no one confidence of your ability to handle it properly in the future.
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June 21 2007, 02:26:40 UTC 4 years ago
to clarify you clarification
No illegal content...Child pornography is a clear example.In the eyes of Six Apart, is Harry Potter Fanfic, featuring an under 18 Harry an example of child pornography?
What about illustrations designed to accompany the same?
(btw - these are yes or no questions)
June 21 2007, 02:31:26 UTC 4 years ago
Re: to clarify you clarification
No. Child pornogaphy is fairly well defined by law and I have not seen any reports of it in HP Fanfic.4 years ago
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June 21 2007, 02:26:41 UTC 4 years ago
Think you'll have to define 'encourage'.
Am I encouraging hate crimes if I use my journal to express how I think people with blonde hair should be deported/drop dead?
What if I cheerfully link to a news story that describes the mugging of someone with blonde hair?
By the sounds of it, there will still be issues with fandom. I think you're going to struggle with this policy, particularly with regards to the non-English speaking segments of LJ. Then again, they'll hardly impact on what English-language advertisers think. Not that I'm being cynical :)
June 21 2007, 02:34:46 UTC 4 years ago
That made me lol.
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June 21 2007, 02:27:48 UTC 4 years ago
Just next time, if there is such a circumstance again, do clarify what is going on since MASS PANIC is not fun to go through.
Hey, I said I wasn't gonna get a perm. account. Go figure, I'm easily swayed. :p
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June 21 2007, 02:36:51 UTC 4 years ago
Just please, next time, don't leave us in the dark wondering what's going on! :)
June 21 2007, 02:36:51 UTC 4 years ago
That said, I would like to see more clarification of exactly what constitutes a "hate crime" and content created to "plan, encourage or advocate" such things. Go to 20 different countries around the world (not just within North America and Western Europe) and ask them what they think a "hate crime" is, and you'll probably get at least 15 different answers -- each with a different degrees of how much planning, encouragement and/or action is actually required before it officially becomes a criminal activity. Just because someone (or some intolerant preachy religious group like WFI) is horribly offended by a word, idea or philosophy doesn't necessarily make it a "hate crime" to merely think, write and post about it. Where will you be drawing the line?
June 21 2007, 13:18:54 UTC 4 years ago
in general, speech that stands alone as a hate crime is narrowly defined (unlike speech that elevates another crime -- a battery -- into a hate crime by being used in conjunction with the 'primary' criminal act). it usually means use of racial or religious slurs, especially if/when accompanied by threats of or wishes for violence.
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One small question.
Dear Barakb,Thank you for re-clarifying and slightly expanding on LJ's policy re: illegal content. As a community maintainer, the front line of reporting illegal content to LJ, I would very much appreciate even further expansion. Not all of us are American citizens and therefore we do not know your laws very well. Apparently, neither do a lot of LJers who are Americans, because it's my American community members who have informed me that x or y is illegal in the US -- and if I look it up, I find that it indeed it is!
If you would be so kind as to address point #3 in my open letter to LJ, I know I would appreciate it and my communities would directly benefit from it.
I know you have not addressed the rest of my letter's points, but I realise now that you do not mean to ever get that specific -- as specific as to help us define pedophila, age of consent, etc. in the Internet context. So, let's move on from that... shall we?
Thanks,
xo M.
June 21 2007, 02:38:09 UTC 4 years ago
It would be helpful for you to post what you will be using as a system to investigate such reports. For transparency, if nothing else.
June 22 2007, 14:38:01 UTC 4 years ago
Second that!
Good ideas all around!June 21 2007, 02:39:44 UTC 4 years ago
Are you still going to be interpreting things listed in interests not as just interests, but as things we support? And if so, how do your Terms of Service tell me--let's pretend that as a new customer I'm reading them and am not aware of this latest blow-up--that I shouldn't list "rape" in my interests because I'm a feminist who is interested in talking about it?
How do you define child pornography? How do you decide whether someone is advocating rape versus indulging in fantasy?
There was someone on one of my communities arguing the other day that some things that are legally considered rape are not actually rape and should not be treated as such. Is that against your Terms of Service?
Does my icon advocate animal cruelty?
These are all practical questions that this vague post doesn't answer. Until I feel reassured that this place is somewhere that won't suddenly decide that [whatever] is against the Terms of Service and start suspending journals, I don't think I'll be renewing my paid account.
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June 21 2007, 02:42:41 UTC 4 years ago
The strikethrough mess was scary, but I feel that you really are trying to fix it as best you can after the fact. Also, you are trying to answer everyone's continuing questions in clear and straightforward language. I know you can't answer every question or concern, but you are doing a good job trying.
Yeah, I think I'll get that permanent account. The lengths I would go to for more icon space....
June 21 2007, 02:45:39 UTC 4 years ago
If I report one of these, by your new policies, would these community and journals be closed down?
June 21 2007, 03:04:38 UTC 4 years ago
That made me giggle. If only there were really communities like that... or are there? *must find this out*
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"If your profile, taken as a whole, breaks these policies..." is still a loophole big enough to drive a hummer through, as is "...make it easier for the community to report abusive or offensive content." Almost everything is offensive to somebody, somewhere, and the fact that parts of my journal might be offensive to vegans, Republicans, or accordion players shouldn't be any of your business.
For that matter, I advocate and actively encourage gay marriage, which is illegal in all US states but Massachusetts. Does that make my journal eligible for summary suspension? If it does, I may as well leave now and save you the trouble.
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Seriously, what's been changed? I find it hard to believe that that's all.
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