Has anyone asked lj....

[heidi]

While driving today it ocured to me that doing an img-src tag to incorporate an image, or even linking to something you don't host, can be catastrophic for an lj user who's had his or her site for years

I know some of the domains I linked to or did img srcs on, or some of the memes I posted in my lj over the last almost-six years have changed domain names and/or owners since then and I don't know the current content on those pages.

So given that lj has now said that linking to something can generate a suspension if the linked-to content, then some content that has changed since originaly linked to can result in suspension and deletion of your lj and every comment and post you've ever made. I know that the content can change because one of the thebadplace registrations from circa 2001 lapsed in, iirc, 2004, and was bought by someone who did some technological trick to make any link to the site or anything at the domain show a close-up of an extremely private place on his anatomy.

If you link to a thread that gets a comment later that lj deems obscene, or where someone later does an img src of "obscene" or "underage-sex" content, are you violating the ToU? Are you responsible for continuously checking the urls of things you linked to 2, 3, 6 years ago?

I can understand LJ concluding that such links and/or img src's are a ToU violation under their current policies, and either asking for them to be removed or even locking the user's account until s/he signs in next or clicks an url in an informing email but at this point, LJ says they have the option to ban/delete and that?

Overkill. To put it mildly.

Comments

[heybritney.livejournal.com]

hey, um, so, not that this is your responsibility or anything, but I'm unclear; does stuff that's under friends lock follow the same rules, or what?
This kinda sucks.

[ceilidh]

Yes, it does. If someone reports it, it doesn't matter if it's friendslocked or not. Or even private, for that matter.

[heybritney.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. That really sucks. But I can't help but think they're just burning themselves. Even though there are probably only a small component that actually posts stuff they don't like/want as part of their community; the rest of us are here because fandom exists here because of them. I mean, if the fanfic and fanart people leave, everyone who reads it will leave with them, and eventually everyone interested in meta will leave too. I don't quite understand who livejournal thinks will also pay for their services, I mean, to be honest, casual users aren't really... interested in paying for it??