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They're at it again! Alright ladies and gents, LiveJournal has censored FanFiction out of the top 100 interests!, as well as many more! Please repost this everywhere with the links! Go here to read the article. Be patient and read the entire article it's a long one. Here's a teaser quote from the post! "I remember many fanfic writers saying the 2007 pedophile witch-hunt that began in May/June 2007 didn't have anything to do with them. Now they've been put on the hitlist. SUP's censorship of popular interests proves they agree with WfI: queers and fanfiction are filth. Livejournal creates a daily report on the most popular interests. This public report is where the censorship I'm describing is taking place. At the moment, the interests I list above can still be added to our profiles, and we can search for them. But the searches users initiate produce limited results. User searches are limited partly to prevent server overload. The only way to know the real number of people interested in cats or movies or Orlando Bloom is through the popular interests page—LJ can get accurate numbers from their database; we can't. For instance, a user search for Johnny Depp gives only 478 matches, but the true number, available on the popular interests page, is 118,393. That's why censorship of the popular interests page is a big deal. It's the only data LiveJournal users have access to that accurately reflects the makeup of the online community. Whenever you search for an interest, look at the end of your results. You'll see a link embedded in the text: "More fun stuff can be found on the interests page." The interests page links to the popular interests page. Say that three times fast."Tags: censorship, fanfiction, livejournal Current Mood: pissed off
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ILLUSION
Livejournal vs. Fandom: Again by Racheline // Posted in Sci-Fi FantasyI know, I know, you’re thinking you’ve read this post before, and in a way you have, but this time it’s different. After Strikethrough and Boldthrough and a few other fan-focused kerfluffles, Six Apart sold popular blogging site and fandom hangout LiveJournal to Russian-owned SUP. A 100 Day plan was put in place, and clear(er) policy guidelines were created that went a long way to reassuring or placating most users. If nothing else, users at least felt like they knew where they stood and could make informed decisions about whether or not to continue using the service. Now, it seems that LiveJournal is editing its “top 100 interests” list which is used to promote the site both to new users and to advertisers, to make it more friendly to some demographic or other. Abruptly removed from the list, despite research showing the interests in question should still be on the top 100, are interests “fanfiction”, “faeries”, “bisexuality” and “depression.” Once again, fandom feels unwelcome at LiveJournal despite being longtime financial supporters and content generators for the site. How this will shake out remains to be seen as no official response from LJ/SUP has been forthcoming. The question is how many thousands of cat macros it will take to get a response this time.
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Archaeologists discover remains of 2500-year-old advanced civilization in Russia
By ANI Friday December 28, 02:37 PM Moscow, Dec 28 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyrgyz mountains in Russia. The discovery consisted of formidable walls, some stretching for 500 meters-traces of a large city with an area of several square kilometers. Other findings included Scythian burial mounds, eroded by waves over the centuries, and numerous well preserved artifacts-bronze battleaxes, arrowheads, self-sharpening daggers, objects discarded by smiths, casting molds, and a faceted gold bar, which was a monetary unit of the time. All these discoveries suggest that the ancient city was a metropolis in its time. Some artifacts are in fact so stunning that they point towards an advanced civilization. http://in.news.yahoo.com/071228/139/6oy8j.htmlEdit: Here's a new link, the one above is defunct per Yahoo's dumb stuff. http://www.dailyindia.com/show/203281.php/Archaeologists-discover-remains-of-2500-year-old-advanced-civilization-in-Russia
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