The time has come, the Walrus said
Aug. 25th, 2007 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kraitTo talk of scary things.
For years -- as long as I've had this journal, I believe, and the journal before this one, too -- I have said that I did not want or intend to lock my posts.
The "do not want" part, at least, still holds true. But I must admit that LiveJournal's new "decency policies" have me very, very worried. To quote from an excellent summary by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
femmequixotic:
Fiction will also be subject to the two-strikes policy; you will not be immediately suspended if your fic is determined to violate LJ policy, but you will be asked to remove it by a specified date. There will be an appeals process for this as well. (Said appeals process has yet to be clarified.)
This policy is retroactive, so if you have something you know violates the policy, you should remove it.
Links to prohibited content offsite will still be subject to this policy. (Question I asked which remains unanswered: What about linking to an author or artist personal website that may contain underage art/fics? LJ provides the ability to link your personal website on your userinfo page, for example. Should artists and authors stop using that?)
Since I don't post explicit fiction in this journal, I've generally felt safe enough making recs. Now, though, it seems very clear that LJ is preparing to attack even links to "indecent" material, which has me very nervous indeed. Locking every rec above a G rating is starting to look more sensible than paranoid, even though everything in me rebels at the thought.
I will definitely start transferring my recs to my new backup journals in the next few days. Once that's done, I'm going to have to start seriously thinking about locking the recs here; hopefully some new information will have come up in the meantime, the better to judge the risks.
For years -- as long as I've had this journal, I believe, and the journal before this one, too -- I have said that I did not want or intend to lock my posts.
The "do not want" part, at least, still holds true. But I must admit that LiveJournal's new "decency policies" have me very, very worried. To quote from an excellent summary by
femmequixotic:Fiction will also be subject to the two-strikes policy; you will not be immediately suspended if your fic is determined to violate LJ policy, but you will be asked to remove it by a specified date. There will be an appeals process for this as well. (Said appeals process has yet to be clarified.)
This policy is retroactive, so if you have something you know violates the policy, you should remove it.
Links to prohibited content offsite will still be subject to this policy. (Question I asked which remains unanswered: What about linking to an author or artist personal website that may contain underage art/fics? LJ provides the ability to link your personal website on your userinfo page, for example. Should artists and authors stop using that?)
Since I don't post explicit fiction in this journal, I've generally felt safe enough making recs. Now, though, it seems very clear that LJ is preparing to attack even links to "indecent" material, which has me very nervous indeed. Locking every rec above a G rating is starting to look more sensible than paranoid, even though everything in me rebels at the thought.
I will definitely start transferring my recs to my new backup journals in the next few days. Once that's done, I'm going to have to start seriously thinking about locking the recs here; hopefully some new information will have come up in the meantime, the better to judge the risks.
