STRIKETHROUGH 2007

[romyra]

People we have been the victim of a witch hunt of epic proportions. After coming home last night and logging in I realised that journals that I've been watching for years were deleted in an instant after a vigilante group with no credentials complained to the LJ abuse team. One such deletion is the community pornish_pixies . Now I know my fandoms, there are warnings and constant reiterations that what we do is fiction, not for profit and not meant to represent real situations at all. Writing is for entertainment purposes only and to have what is bascially a mass censorship occur based on a group's complaint who did not do any sort of research has me pissed off like you wouldn't believe. We lost so many communities and so many more persons that I intended to friend which I will never be able to, that it has me beyond depressed. There are many links on my Flist about those who are doing their part to monitor the situation. I am linking to just one which has links to the major information that is necessary. I've attempted to memory all of the relevant posts and that category is called Mass Censorship 2007.; The linked to post contains  communities and inidividuals that have been banned and deleted, the group responsible for all of this and methods of adding your suppost. I don't want to lose any of you. I don't want to miss the opportunity to get to know you but based on all of this there may never be that opportunity again.

My HEARTFELT APOLOGIES TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE, ARE GOING, THINKING ABOUT IT AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMISED.

FANDOM WE MUST FIGHT THIS AS BEST WE CAN.

For information and banners check

roaring 

and my thanks goes out to

talonsage 

since thanks to her I found the banners that I wanted. 











NB: There are others that she has created and if you want one go to    roaring 

Finally find strength in the immortal words of Bob Marley who knew more about oppression than I ever could. Stay safe and well everyone.


Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Preacherman, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you dont know
What life is really worth.
Its not all that glitters is gold;
half the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. jah!

Get up, stand up! (jah, jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (so we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord!)
Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (yeah!)

We sick an tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin n goin to heaven in-a jesus name, lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better:
Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (dont give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! /fadeout/


Edit: Further updates on the situation by liz_marcs

Comments

[romyra]

Thanks....just doing my part to spread the word.

[suresoundstudio.livejournal.com]

When you log in check the lg administration page. You would see that lj has already dealt with the matter.

[romyra]

*apologies for sounding ranty in advance ok*

They're working on it. I've been following this thing since it happened Tuesday and trust me they've only just begun to placate us. Some of the people I enjoy speaking with and reading were affected and it really scared me to think that some of them would leave fandom and I couldn't blame them. What happened was intolerable as it was a mass deletion without the proper checks. Now yes they've apologised but frankly there was first a call to CNet before that post and frankly he only made us angrier when he said that not more than twelve journals were wrongly deleted. Ha! If you get a chance check here fandom_counts for all the persons who came together to make a stand and if this didn't send a message that we were serious then lj was really gonna see how serious we were. But I hope that there will be restitution now that a proper investigation will take place.