The one where I offer no comment.

[odditycollector]

You've heard, I'm sure, that LJ has removed the strikethrough on suspended journals and stopped them from showing up on your default user page. Conveniently, they've made these changes at about the same time as they've once again started suspending members of fandom, such as ponderosa121 and elaboration, without warning or official comment.

And now they are suspending artists who have NOT drawn underage smut.

(Thanks to vejiita4eva for the heads up on that last one.)

ETA:

The standard for artistic merit is not whether a work simply has technical merit; it is whether there is serious artistic value that offsets the sexual nature of the content. A group consisting of members of LiveJournal's Abuse Prevention Team, LiveJournal employees, and Six Apart staff reviewed the content that was reported to us. This group decides whether material potentially in violation of this policy warrants consideration for serious artistic value. In this case, they clearly did not see serious artistic value in content that simply displayed graphic sexual acts involving minors.

Regards,
Eric
LiveJournal Abuse Prevention Team

Add that to the fact that they are going to be adding a "report abuse" button to all posts from now on...

From here.

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LJArchive - back up your entries, images, and comments.

InsaneJournal - where it looks like this corner of fandom is heading.

synecdochic offers an explanation for "Why the fuck NOW," as well as what else we ought to be angry about.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation - (US based) Know your rights in internet-land. And defend them.

Comments

[esoteroticist.livejournal.com]

Lurker here, hello. Just wondering - what standards are they using for 'serious artistic value'? What criteria does a picture have to meet in order to have this value? And has anyone asked them this yet? I'd bet quite a lot of money that they wouldn't be able to answer it.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

And has anyone asked them this yet? I'd bet quite a lot of money that they wouldn't be able to answer it.
People have been asking since the first Strikeout, and you'd be up for quite a return if you could find someone to take those odds. ;)

Right now they seem to be using the tried and false method of "I know it when I see it." (They have played with more legal sounding terms like 'obscene' and 'Miller Test' but have yet to do so in a coherent manner.) Everyone's upset because LJ won't tell us where the lines are more than anything.