Comment Re:Not trolling (Score 1) 895
Actually, the professor admitted that he stopped his "experiment" after Issue 13, which changed a lot of the PvP mechanics--including specifically removing the exploit that he used.
Submission + - Livejournal extends censorship to linked content (livejournal.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Many of you might remember the previous story about Livejournal erroneously deleting hundreds of users as suspected paedophiles, spurred on by pressure from right-wing group Warriors for innocence. Since then, they've been taking action against users hosting material on their servers that they believe to be illegal. Today, Livejournal management have demonstrated a serious lack of understanding in how the internet works, declaring that users are responsible for the content of the webpages that they link to in their blog entries. A user points out the obvious flaw; "I get ToS'd because the link's been redirected to a page full o' porn, even though context clearly shows that when I originally put up the link that it didn't actually land on a page of porn?".
One wonders how such a long-established blogging company be so ignorant about the nature of the world wide web?
Comment Nice work! (Score 1) 10
Great to read a calm, balanced analysis. In the end, it's not the actual suspension that's driven so many people away--it's the clown show that became LJ's response.
