where I stand now

[rm]

Many of you know I was seriously unhappy with LJ's first apology. Their most recent news post indicates how vast a restoration of accounts they are doing, and I have to say, I'm a lot happier.

BUT, Six Apart/LJ still has a lot to do to make me calm down. These things include:

a) making things right with users who have been branded pedophiles across the Internet (free journal rename tokens and public apology listing all wronged journals at minimum).
b) retraction of the CEOs statements claiming the right and ability to evaluate of what is art and academic study.
c) restorion of lolita07. Thank you!
d) answering questions about where gay users stand in light of the continued phrasing about banning journals that encourage illegal sexual activity.
e) an admission that they outright lied to users at the beginning saying this wasn't going on.
f) a better explanation of why this happened how and when.

Comments

[darkrosetiger.livejournal.com]

I also want an explanation of why they acted on the basis of a single complaint from a person connected to right-wing hate groups, and how the intend to prevent similar incidents in the future.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

The explanation for that is exceedingly simple. WfI didn't just contact lj, they also contacted advertisers with screenshots of various pages, and said "Do you want your ads associated with this sort of thing." Some advertisers contacted lj and either withdrew ads or threatened to do so, so lj panicked because they feared loss of income. This has absolutely nothing to do with any political or social views held by anyone working for Six Apart, and everything to do with the fact that advertising is a powerful tool.

In short, the blame goes to lj for introducing ads and also to every last user who has an ad-supported account. Accepting advertising means that lj gave way some of its autonomy. The best way to stop this from happening again is to try to get people to stop using ad-supported accounts.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's in my incoherent f).

I am still so unspeakably upset and uncomfortable with all of this. And, from the comments in the news posts, it looks like at least 50% of the originally outraged are too.