Hopefully My Last Word on LJ/6A

It is clear with LJ's latest round of tomdickery that they've no intention of creating the clear guidelines users have so desperately and rightfully requested. If they did that, they'd limit the scope and breadth of their banning powers and allow fandom, which is nothing if not canny and resourceful, to find loopholes. By issuing vague rules and refusing to modify their TOS to reflect those rules, they've given themselves carte blanche to delete any account for any reason.

I fully intend to stay here until they kick me out, but in the event that my vanilla Pr0n gets me the heave-ho, InsaneJournal will become my new online home. Yes, the color scheme is fugly, but the site owner has assured its users that only a court order can compel him to remove content. Period. Sounds good to me.

LJ still hasn't clarified their policy on material linked from another site, but I suspect we won't like the answer. Common sense would presume that they couldn't be held responsible for content hosted outside their servers, but I'm no lawyer, and there's probably some obscure codicil about culpability by proxy because they allowed the link that granted access to the "unacceptable material."

My favorite part of LJ's legalese vomit is their insistence that private entries are held to the same content standards as public ones? Bzuh? Private entries are visible only to the owner of the blog. Either LJ expects fandomers to be such paper-chewing meat sticks that they report themselves, or they are admitting that they intend to violate users' privacy filters in order to search for policy violations. Neither possible reason makes me comfortable at all.

Several users in the news thread have pointed out that refusal to revise the TOS and allow users to re-agree or opt out is against California law, and if so, I'd love to see the fen who are so quick to write polemics and post cat macros and join fandom_counts use that passion and fervor to test that theory. Call the California Attorney General and raise the issue.

The fandom persecution angle won't go over well with those unfamiliar with fandom, but this is a clear case of willfully bad customer service, and any attorney with a properly proportioned head should be able to skin 6A and wear Barak's smug, porcine face like a hat and his sad little bollocks like earrings.

After two months of constant wrangling, I just want either or both sides to put up or shut up.