> ... The problem is, if you actually look at how this is being carried out, it's so open to abuse that it amounts to countless Little Brothers, who now can conceivably report any entry for "hate speech" or "offensive content" if its religious, political, philosophical or any other views disagree with their own, especially since there is no recourse given for "flagged" LJ users who wish to contest such allegations against themselves. Also, the whole "protecting children" angle is bullshit, because LJ itself has officially stated that LJ users under 18 may still post entries including adult-level topics, but they may not see any other LJs which include similarly adult-level topics, so gone is the ability of adolescents to talk with one another about a lot of the growing-up stuff they go through at that age, and in its place is a system that gives potential pedophiles a one-way window into teens' sex lives.
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That's a good point. I'm not entirely sure they did that purposely, it sounds to me like a bad implementation. In fact I'm going to report that to their bug system - adults should not be able to see under-18 users' journals without permission, especially if this system was put in place to protect them from liability. Also, it should be designed so one person's journal can't be "swarmed" by activists.
> The fact that LJ changed everyone's settings to "filtered" by default, without telling anyone, likewise did little to endear them to their own users. I've had to correspond individually with several of my fellow LJ users, to guide them through the process of switching the settings on their LJs, so that they can see my entries on their friends pages now without having to un-collapse every single one individually.
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That was also bad implementation. They should activate filtering only for under-18 users. I guess they couldn't figure out how right away so they took the lazy approach and applied it to everyone.
