Comment So that means... (Score 1) 224
the invasion from the Hive will be delayed a few more months. Good! We can look for the Tunnel-Makers' signal a while longer... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s_Bridge_(book))
Submission + - Livejournal-SixApart suspending accounts
Tsarina Amanda writes: "Livejournal/SixApart has bowed to complaints and possible nastygrams to advertisers by a so-called vigilante group Warriors for Innocence by suspending accounts related to fandom writing, roleplaying journals, abuse survivor groups and one community discussing Nabokov. The efforts appear to have very little to do with any actual crimes committed on Livejournal. LJ's Abuse and legal team has apparently decided that having certain keywords consitutes criminal intent.
Strikethrough 2007, Permanent Suspensions is an excellent clearinghouse of information, including malicious spyware attacks by this supposed vigilante group, lists of deleted and suspended communities as well as numerous other posts with relevant information.
LJ users have posted several thousand comments in the past 24 hours asking for a public explanation from Livejournal/SixApart. Numerous paid users have stated they are withdrawing their business form the site. More than 12,000 users have joined Fandom Counts Community to show how their absence would negatively impact the finances of the company. In the past 24 hours, LJ & SixApart have failed to address the issue at all."
Submission + - Mass "false positive" LiveJournal account
Green Monkey writes: "More social network "false positives": LiveJournal has been permanently suspending accounts suspected of promoting incest — except that many of them were communities for survivors of abuse and people discussing Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Even after being related to the problem, LiveJournal apparently refuses to reinstate the banned accounts. LiveJournal's official news blog has filled up with hundreds of complaints protesting the decision, so we could have another Digg-style user rebellion brewing."
Submission + - LiveJournal deleting "illegal" accounts
tirerim writes: "A group calling itself the Warriors For Innocence complained to LiveJournal that many journals and communities listed certain illegal interests that might encourage pedophilia. As a result, the company has apparently been deleting such accounts, no questions asked. Victims so far reportedly include several fanfiction communities, a discussion group for the book Lolita, journals of RPG characters, and, most disturbingly, some journals of survivors of child abuse."
Submission + - Livejournal/Six Apart begin mass-deleting accounts
LowbrowDeluxe writes: Livejournal has begun deleting accounts based solely on their listing 'illegal' interests. While Livejournal itself has yet to make any official statement on the more than 500 accounts already suspended, the President of the parent company has already been interviewed and claimed that the journals in question did not meet the criteria of the environment they wished to create. While the keywords used to choose the accounts were clearly related to child pornography, incest, and rape, accounts such as Harry Potter fan groups, and rape survivor groups have also been suspended, appearantly permanently. She a related news article here: http://news.com.com/Mass+deletion+sparks+LiveJourn al+revolt+-+page+2/2100-1025_3-6187619-2.html?tag= st.num
Or just go to Livejournal and watch the panic spread.
Submission + - Chinese bombing range visible in Google Maps
kentrel writes: "Yesterday I found this slashdot comment which links to a google map photograph of a Chinese airbase deep in the middle of the Gobi Desert with a mock airbase built nearby, obviously used for practise bombing missions. I thought it was impressive so I posted the link to a flight sim forum and a poster noticed that the mock airbase was an exact replica of a Taiwanese airbase."
Submission + - Vigilante group wreaks havoc on LJ fandom
minkowski writes: "A mysterious group called Warriors for Innocence has approached Six Apart (the company which owns LiveJournal) demanding that certain journals and communities on LJ be terminated.
The common trait shared by many of these journals and communities is that they contain fanfiction slash and incest.
Of the blogs targeted for termination, most of them have been fandom related. The criteria for getting a journal deleted appears to be very broad. Many blogs have been deleted for merely mentioning the keyword "incest" in
the list of interests. A post on this LJ users blog
summarizes the rumors and accusations now flying between LJ users who feel betrayed — and Six Apart."
Submission + - Twilight for Pegasus and Mercury
Daemon Duck writes: One of the web's oldest and most respected email clients is flickering
out of existence. Pegasus mail and it's companion SMTP server,
Mercury32, have been discontinued due to lack of funding for the
ongoing development. On the website, the author David Harris states
that if some funding becomes available he would consider opening the
source code or continuing the development. The announcement can be read
here.
Submission + - Dying galaxy destined to be reborn
TENxOXR writes: "A dying galaxy near the Milky Way appears to be sowing the seeds of its own rebirth and may hold the secret to the apparent reincarnation of several other similar galaxies. The phoenix-like process may also help resolve a longstanding mystery about missing dark matter clumps near the Milky Way."
