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[commotiocordis]

More LJ Strikethrough nonsense.

From the TOS:

Should any Content that you have authored be reported to LiveJournal as being offensive or inappropriate, LiveJournal might call upon you to retract, modify, or protect (by means of private and friends only settings) the Content in question within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the LiveJournal staff. Should you fail to meet such a request from LiveJournal staff, LiveJournal may terminate your account.

So there's one thing. And then later:

Without limiting the foregoing(!!!!!!!!), LiveJournal and its designates shall have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable...

But then you've got this:

If LiveJournal determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that any user is in violation of the TOS, LiveJournal retains the right to terminate such user's account at any time without prior notice.

Don't those seem pretty contradictory in wording?

Comments

[rainbowjumpsuit.livejournal.com]

I wonder what they consider "offensive or inappropriate". Will we get deleted for fic?!

That blows.

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Eventually, possibly. It all comes down to who is financially leaning on Six Apart/LJ. Like I said, if Focus on the Family (extreme right wing religious group opposing all kinds of gay everything and anything demeaning traditional family values) started leaning on 6A hard enough, it's very possible.

[rainbowjumpsuit.livejournal.com]

This sucks. Thanks for keeping me informed anyhow though. I wouldn't find out any other way. *lol*

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to make sure everybody knew! No problem, I'm glad it's appreciated.

[chaosity.livejournal.com]

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

So we can't write anything that could be offensive in OUR journals, which are supposedly here for OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS?

Jesus, half my fucking entries would probably count as inappropriate in one way or another.

This is all so fucked up.

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Thing is that most of the time, if you've been singled out as having something offensive, they'll do what they say up there in the first part and ask you to take it down or make it FO or private. This interest based deletion thing is somewhat new, though I have heard that some journals with drug-related interests have been getting taken off, possibly since before this.

I mean, I'm no lawyer, but they need to clarify that up there, because that's essentially contradictory. Trufax.

[alex-topfer.livejournal.com]

It looks like a fairly standard terms of service to me. You could try a different blog software but you would probably still get it there.
As long as your blog doesn't attract nutters with a persecution complex or is actually really offensive, and I doubt anyone on opium_lips' friend list would be that offensive, you will be fairly safe. Actually even if it does get the aforementioned nutters I think the LJ staff would see them for the nutters they are.

Also if you pissed off about this you may want to check your ISP; I know optus has the same clause on my net access and I've heard of others in the same situation too.