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LiveJournal has censored FanFiction out of the top 100 interests!
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."

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A one-day content strike has been suggested
A one-day content strike has been suggested. For one day, make no posts. Make no comments. Let there be no new content added to LJ. The day chosen is this coming Friday, March 21, from midnight to midnight. Details and reasoning are at the link. I am planning not to post anything on Friday, and I hope you will also take the one-day vacation and go do something wonderful with the time.
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Livejournal vs. Fandom: Again
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Livejournal vs. Fandom: Again

by Racheline // Posted in Sci-Fi Fantasy


I 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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Hiya Ainabarad:)

Looky at this:D

For some reason I thought about you when I saw this:)

UnderGroundOnline


Sorry I haven't been on more, but I haven't had time to get online much here lately. Hopefully I can get online and catch up soon:)
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You can still get XColibur and Dystopia as a viewing option!
If you want to use either of these older viewing options XColibur or Dystopia you can find find them displayed for choosing when you use this link and this link only!


Viewing Options

http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?view=schemes
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Engineer: Tank Found In Pit At Middle School

Engineer: Tank Found In Pit At Middle School

POSTED: 1:37 pm EST January 5, 2008
UPDATED: 7:30 am EST January 7, 2008

Residents near a local middle school said they find it hard to believe that no one knew about the World War II bombing range the school was built on.The Army Corps of Engineers detonated 400 pounds of explosives found on the school property on Saturday."We were able to explode and render safe 49 23-pound bombs," Mike Fulford of the Army Corps Of Engineers said.
Universal Engineering Services painted a rosy picture of the now-school property when it was surveyed in August of 1999: "No practice or live ordinance was dropped or fired on or from the Vista Lakes Property during operation of the Pine Castle Jeep Range. Former activities of the PJR do not appear to have adversly impacted the subject property."

.............Universal Engineering Services painted a rosy picture of the now-school property when it was surveyed in August of 1999: "No practice or live ordinance was dropped or fired on or from the Vista Lakes Property during operation of the Pine Castle Jeep Range. Former activities of the PJR do not appear to have adversly impacted the subject property."



http://www.wesh.com/news/14985360/detail.html


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Archaeologists discover remains of 2500-year-old advanced civilization in Russia
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.html

Edit:

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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Naked anger as Peter Pan's Wendy gets porno rewrite

Naked anger as Peter Pan's Wendy gets porno rewrite

X-rated comic book exploits end of copyright


PETER Pan is known to generations of children as the boy who never grew up.

But his sweetheart Wendy is depicted in a series of adult situations in a hugely controversial new adaptation of JM Barrie's classic tale.

In the extremely graphic graphic-novel Lost Girls, Pan's demure companion is shown in a serious of erotic trysts.

The illustrated adult book, which depicts Tinkerbell being raped and Wendy being spied on by paedophile peeping toms, has provoked children's campaigners and devotees of the original Barrie fable to demand it be taken off the shelves.

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/latestnews/Naked-anger-as-Peter-Pan39s.3644511.jp

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Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01042008.html

Jane Harman and Liberty's Lost Light

Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush's "surge" in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress.

The American people's attempt in November 2006 to rein in a rogue government, which has committed the US to costly military adventures while running roughshod over the US Constitution, failed. Replacing Republicans with Democrats in the House and Senate has made no difference.

The assault on the US Constitution by the Democratic Party is as determined as the assault by the Republicans. On October 23, 2007, the House passed a bill sponsored by California Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman, chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, that overturns the constitutionally guaranteed rights to free expression, association, and assembly.

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Find the rest at the link at the top of the post!

 

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How many laws has Bush broken?

 http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/index.php?p=256


How many laws has Bush broken?


Dan Abrams in this second installment of his week long series “Bush League Justice” Dan Abrams looks at just how many laws has Bush broken?

The following video is from MSNBC’s Abrams Report, broadcast on December 11, 2007

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