you know what? Fuck you Barak Berkowitz
May. 31st, 2007 04:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireThe well known group Perverted Justice tried to get LJ to delete actual pedophiles and was rebuffed. If you don't know, Perverted Justice is a group that works in tandem with law enforcement around hte country to stop online predators. They have most recently been notable for their work with NBC's Dateline series "To Catch A Predator."
If this doesn't make clear what a bunch of bullshit this entire fiasco is, I don't know what will. Anyone who knows me knows how strongly I feel about sexual abuse and especially people who prey on children. I resent profoundly the idea that writers of fiction should be lumped into the same category as pedophiles.
"We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn't think met our policies and didn't think they were appropriate to have up," Barak Berkowitz, chairman and chief executive of Six Apart, said in a telephone interview. The site boasts about 13 million journals.
Berkowitz said the company would "obviously apologize" to anyone whose journal was deleted in error but added: "That's going to be a very small minority of the sites. I would be shocked if it's more than a dozen." - from the CNET article here
Fuck you fuck you fuck you. I can't believe this. Brad, you sold our site down the river to these morons at Six Apart? I hope the money was really good.
If this doesn't make clear what a bunch of bullshit this entire fiasco is, I don't know what will. Anyone who knows me knows how strongly I feel about sexual abuse and especially people who prey on children. I resent profoundly the idea that writers of fiction should be lumped into the same category as pedophiles.
"We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn't think met our policies and didn't think they were appropriate to have up," Barak Berkowitz, chairman and chief executive of Six Apart, said in a telephone interview. The site boasts about 13 million journals.
Berkowitz said the company would "obviously apologize" to anyone whose journal was deleted in error but added: "That's going to be a very small minority of the sites. I would be shocked if it's more than a dozen." - from the CNET article here
Fuck you fuck you fuck you. I can't believe this. Brad, you sold our site down the river to these morons at Six Apart? I hope the money was really good.
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Date: 2007-06-01 04:18 pm (UTC)It is upsetting, but don't give up lj. How else can you meet people like me who share a love for Bohrumil Hrabal? I'm sure not going anywhere. If the nightmare scenarios you spelled out in your prior post occur, then I will change my mind!
Don't let the bastards get you down!