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Childish. God the reaction has been knee-jerk and childish. Understand that I view all of this through the jaundiced eye of a seasoned, nay, hardened online community member/moderator/manager/employer. I've been involved in online community since 1989 and my first BBS in Dallas. As always, the conflict and confusion fans embers that have been smoldering until the conflagration takes out entire towns. What I find MOST amusing about all of this is that there was no where in all the knee jerk reaction that I could find the original, substantiated report that was the catalyst to all this.
Thanks be to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kriserin who pointed me to the CEO's apologetic post this morning. LJ/SixApart broke one cardinal rule in community: You didn't set a framework for communicating what you were doing and why. When you do that, wankers with victim complexes larger than developing countries rush in to fill that vacuum. Mass hysteria and mob rule take over a normally sedate homestead on the web.
Once people are done stapling the back of their wrist to their forehead I hope they get over themselves and go back to their damp and dirty little corners. For me, I'm tired of it. I've been through it far too often. My sympathy right now lies with Barak Berkowitz who seriously under estimated the noise of the disgruntled.
LJ/SixApart do not limit enrollment to 13 years and up and so they must comply with COPPA, which is a federal law. It's flawed at best and in place because of similar knee-jerk reactions on both sides of the 'free speech' fence.
Oh, and that's another thing: All you drama whores who complain that your 'First Amendment' rights have been trampled YET again. Go back to school, you twats. The first Amendment says, and I quote:
Guess what? Six-Apart is NOT Congress. The servers on which LJ resides are not owned by the Government, neither is the Internet. The First Amendment of the Constitution does not, in any way, shape or form, guarantee you the right to say anything you want, anywhere you want, any time you want, in any form you want. It very specifically says that the Government will not make laws abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. That the Government regularly abuses the First Amendment on it's own is a completely different point.
Now, go take your valium and grow the fuck up.
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Thanks be to
kriserin who pointed me to the CEO's apologetic post this morning. LJ/SixApart broke one cardinal rule in community: You didn't set a framework for communicating what you were doing and why. When you do that, wankers with victim complexes larger than developing countries rush in to fill that vacuum. Mass hysteria and mob rule take over a normally sedate homestead on the web. Once people are done stapling the back of their wrist to their forehead I hope they get over themselves and go back to their damp and dirty little corners. For me, I'm tired of it. I've been through it far too often. My sympathy right now lies with Barak Berkowitz who seriously under estimated the noise of the disgruntled.
LJ/SixApart do not limit enrollment to 13 years and up and so they must comply with COPPA, which is a federal law. It's flawed at best and in place because of similar knee-jerk reactions on both sides of the 'free speech' fence.
Oh, and that's another thing: All you drama whores who complain that your 'First Amendment' rights have been trampled YET again. Go back to school, you twats. The first Amendment says, and I quote:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Guess what? Six-Apart is NOT Congress. The servers on which LJ resides are not owned by the Government, neither is the Internet. The First Amendment of the Constitution does not, in any way, shape or form, guarantee you the right to say anything you want, anywhere you want, any time you want, in any form you want. It very specifically says that the Government will not make laws abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. That the Government regularly abuses the First Amendment on it's own is a completely different point.
Now, go take your valium and grow the fuck up.
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