Six Apart Deletes Fan Art Journals on LiveJournal


	Six Apart Deletes Fan Art Journals on LiveJournal

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8-5-2007 12:44 PM

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Once again, Six Apart has been suspending the LiveJournals of users posting "inappropriate" content. Due to the brouhaha over "Strikethrough 2007," the admins at LJ have also taken a new approach to suspensions: bolding account names instead of striking them through.  In traditional fandom response, fans have been flooding the posts at <A target="_blank" href="http://news.livejournal.com">LJ News</A> with angry responses and cat macros.  The post which set off the chain reaction seems to be a fanart piece featuring Harry Potter and Severus Snape, which the artist (whose account was permanently suspended)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://firefox.org/news/articles/550/1/Six-Apart-At-It-Again-Deletes-Fan-Art-Journals-on-LiveJournal/Page1.html"><A 10px;="" padding:="" float:right;="" href="http://www.<div style=">says </A>is not in fact a depiction of underage sex.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://firefox.org/news/articles/550/1/Six-Apart-At-It-Again-Deletes-Fan-Art-Journals-on-LiveJournal/Page1.html"><DIV>Factual information is difficult to find; some of the journals being suspended appear to have been punished for posts that were locked and/or filtered.  LiveJournal staff members have not yet officially responded to the latest outcry.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6DF99134-6C6B-40E9-94AD-72CB9FE90A8A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>