Look, I'm late to the game but I'll play.

[constance]

A certain pecentage of my friendslist is just sort of gone, and now that I'm back I am missing them; and it seems silly and stubborn not to keep track if I know where to find them. I'm still posting to livejournal, have no immediate plans to post anywhere else, but I did create an insanejournal to make sure I don't miss anything.

If you comment here with your ij name -- and possibly if you don't, if I can manage to find you -- I'll friend you with my tofty account there.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

*sighs* Guys? It doesn't matter where the servers are located when it comes to the enforcement of obscenity and pornography laws--it matters what jurisdiction you live in--the First Amendment is not applicable to a private actor and Spanky or Stinky or whatever his name is over at IJ is your best friend only until some vigilante group or the Justice Department or the suits at Warner Brothers start making more trouble for him than a bunch of new paid accounts are worth. (Those being the three "arguments" I've heard in all of this to-do that have been driving me farthest up a wall, not that that's your problem.) Also, I'm cynical enough to give this, what, fifth or sixth mass migration elsewhere since I joined LJ about six months tops, though I've been wrong before.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

You're preaching to the choir, of course, but: agreed on the migration issues. And thank you for clarifying the obsenity law! Even I, who am, as I mentioned, the choir, was a little fuzzy on this. Nice to have it laid out nice and succinct, ma'am.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

All legalese aside, none of this is rocket science--folks are not hearing this stuff about the First Amendment, jurisdictional locale and the fact that we all agreed to a TOS that says "May suspend or ban users for any reason we see fit" because, frankly, it's just not what they want to hear. Which is a childish way to behave at best but, you know, nobody ever said that fandom was a nest of emotional maturity. (And by the way, considering that it now seems almost certain that the source of all the problems is a fannish mole or seven keeping tabs on places like pornish_pixies, do people really, truly believe everything will be magically solved just by going somewhere else? God, that's naive.)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

do people really, truly believe everything will be magically solved just by going somewhere else? God, that's naive

Oh, yeah. :/

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I'm just cynical because the trolls and crazies can migrate as easily as anyone else.

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

THANK you. It's nice to hear a voice of reason in the midst of this hysterical mass exodus.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I keep hearing the same misstatements made over and over again and it's making me grit my teeth to powder.