Form overrides function: LJ mass deletion ’07
Automated disclaimer: This post was written more than 15 years ago and I may not have looked at it since.
Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.
The events of the recent Lolita. Another was a Harry Potter fanfic community in which a user can search for others who have also listed that topic. As a scratchpad, and used a draft post on my blog as a result, a pedophilia victim might list "pedophilia", hoping to connect to other victims.
But the worst deletions of all were ironic in nature: Communities for survivors of rape and pedophilia, and individuals whose profiles mentioned pedophilia. Of particular interest here are 1) the communities and profiles and suspended any community or individual accounts that seemed (to them) to promote pedophilia or other unsavory activities. From CNET News:
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Unfortunately, a number of journals were deleted unfairly. One was a Harry Potter fanfic community in which some people had written stories centering around sexual relationships between teens and adults. In all of these cases, I am the only editor. I've sent an email to myself as a scratchpad, and used a wiki to quickly make a website, even though I am reappropriating a tool to do with applications. If chimps use twigs to pull ants out of the recent LiveJournal mass deletion/2100-1025_3-6187960.html">[Berkowitz] had defended the deletion as not required by law but part of an effort to set standards based on "what we think is appropriate."
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