Boldthrough - and the art of law.
Aug. 13th, 2007 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dhae_knight_1Okay, so... it just occurred to me why I'm leaving LJ ASAP (yes, I'm slow that way).
Seriously, I haven't realized this before, just had this creeping, crawling feeling all the way up and down my spine whenever I thought about it.
The lack of a clear-cut ToS at LJ right now, can be compared to a country in which the law is vague at best - but where the police has a whole different set of laws - secret laws - that they can enforce at will. If you are the first one to break a particular law (even if it's not one of the vague, publicized laws), you would have no way of knowing that it could land you in prison for 25 to life.
The first thing you would know about it, was when the police came knocking, cuffed you, and dragged you out on your ass - in the dead of night, 'cause that way, it wouldn't upset the neighbors.
Seriously - it sounds extreme - but that's the way I'm feeling about LJ right now. If they won't tell me what they consider 'illegal' (i.e. bannable) - and will continue to ban users - completely contrary to their own publicized ToS - and will continue to stonewall requests for an explanation from the accused (i.e. the banned user)... well, frankly, that's not a place I want to be. A lot of people have no problem with that - and that's fine. Me, personally? I don't fancy living in a dictatorship - even if it is driven by the forces of commerce...
The very least the dictator could do was make it clear and public what rules he expects his subjects to... well, subject to.
Seriously, I haven't realized this before, just had this creeping, crawling feeling all the way up and down my spine whenever I thought about it.
The lack of a clear-cut ToS at LJ right now, can be compared to a country in which the law is vague at best - but where the police has a whole different set of laws - secret laws - that they can enforce at will. If you are the first one to break a particular law (even if it's not one of the vague, publicized laws), you would have no way of knowing that it could land you in prison for 25 to life.
The first thing you would know about it, was when the police came knocking, cuffed you, and dragged you out on your ass - in the dead of night, 'cause that way, it wouldn't upset the neighbors.
Seriously - it sounds extreme - but that's the way I'm feeling about LJ right now. If they won't tell me what they consider 'illegal' (i.e. bannable) - and will continue to ban users - completely contrary to their own publicized ToS - and will continue to stonewall requests for an explanation from the accused (i.e. the banned user)... well, frankly, that's not a place I want to be. A lot of people have no problem with that - and that's fine. Me, personally? I don't fancy living in a dictatorship - even if it is driven by the forces of commerce...
The very least the dictator could do was make it clear and public what rules he expects his subjects to... well, subject to.
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Date: 2007-08-13 05:14 am (UTC)I thought LJ explained pretty well about their rules. After their huge blunder, of course. For example that the things in the bio thread were meant to be things you liked, supported, etc, and not just subjects you were interested in discussing (so that a term like child abuse could be misunderstood as though you supported it, and not just that it was a subject you felt strongly about and would debate any time). But, I did read their news blogs and they described up and down what had caused them to overreact, and they apologized a lot too.
Like I said, as far as I know, the people in the House fandom who was affected, have gotten their accounts back, and I haven't heard of anyone leaving (I might be wrong, I don't know everyone, I've just not seen any public talk of it).
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Date: 2007-08-13 05:15 am (UTC)