LJ, SA and a grim bit of reality.

[fickle]

LJ's got another announcement post over at lj_biz. As opposed to news, as usual.

Also, I know it's not important in the grand scheme of things, but has anyone been told yet why deleted usernames are bold instead of struck through? My curiosity, it's killing me!

Frankly, LJ already apologized and sounded sincere about it in May. Then this latest round of idiocy happened. I'm not too keen on sticking around for it to happen a third time.

If you've got a paid account, permanent account or used to have one of those, go here to answer a few questions about why and be counted amongst those people who are no longer to give LJ or 6A their cash to play with. I already filled it out -- if you aren't sure about your payment history, check it out here. Your info about when your journal was created and when the paid account expires is in your userinfo.

And finally, on a non-LJ but still Internet freedom issue, AT&T censors Pearl Jam's live Webcast concert so that the lines “George Bush, leave this world alone” and “George Bush find yourself another home” were muted out of the song.

Comments

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

Re: ur intarweb freedomz, the last bit isn't atypical. Even just mentions of the word "war" have been cut from radio edits. Weird that they'd do it during a live concert, but otherwise not unprecedented.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

...Bizarre. I know that the American Idiot song by Green Day has the words 'faggot' and 'mindfuck' edited out of it, but that's only the MTV version, as far as I know. I think it plays normally on Kerrang.