Strikethrough 2007

In case anyone out there has managed to miss this:

So Six Apart's CEO finally spoke up in an interview with CNet--and boy did he put his foot in it:
"Our decision here was not based on pure legal issues. It was based on what community we want to build and what we think is appropriate within that community and what's not."

A simple enough statement on the surface, but to fandom, them's fighting words.

Said CEO apologized for the deletions this morning, and for his CNet interview. The deleted accounts are being reviewed, so we'll see how this shakes out in the end. It seems like the deletions were supposed to be a good faith effort to eliminate groups supporting pedophelia and child abuse and that is what the above quote is about, but boy was it handled wrong.

This whole thing reminds me of an SVU episode (or twenty), and don't think I don't want to smack Olivia every time she equates writing fantasized versions of sexual crimes with actually committing said crimes. Little tiny difference there.

Also, all you fannish people, go and join fandom_counts, where every sock puppet gets a vote! Seriously, it's an attempt to get a tally of how many of those 13 million lj accounts are fannish. As of this morning, 25,000.

More Pirates

A summary of the writers' comments on PotC 3 -- spoilers ahoy, duh. Given the fact that the behind the scenes features on PotC 2 show a lot of snarking and yelling at the writers for not having any sort of script for PotC 3 when they were shooting PotC 2 (and not even having that script really done) despite the fact that the two movies are supposed to make up one story, I'm not that surprised that all of this didn't actually come across in the film. The film felt to me like it was full of little elements that were supposed to be storylines but were abandoned in one rewrite or another, leaving only the stub.

Now, I ask you, ( spoilers )