Editing LiveJournal (section)

===Account suspension ===
In May 2007, LiveJournal suspended approximately 500 accounts and communities, causing what [[CNET]] referred to as a "revolt" from "thousands of LiveJournal customers",<ref name="cnet">{{cite web|first=Declan |last=McCullagh |url=http://news.cnet.com/Mass+deletion+sparks+LiveJournal+revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html |title=Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt |date=May 30, 2007 |publisher=[[CNET Networks|CNet News.com]] |access-date=2010-03-29 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714131202/http://news.cnet.com/Mass-deletion-sparks-LiveJournal-revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html |archive-date=July 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> after a number of activist groups, including one named Warriors for Innocence, reported pedophilic material on its website.<ref name="cnet"/><ref name="inquirer">{{cite web |url=http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40013 |title=Live Journal does a u-turn on online book burning |publisher=Theinquirer.net |access-date=2010-03-29 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707220510/http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40013 |archive-date=2007-07-07 }}</ref><ref name="firefox">{{cite web |author=Published 30 May 2007 |url=http://firefox.org/news/articles/408/1/Six-Apart-Deletes-500-LiveJournals-Many-Fannish/Page1.html |title=Six Apart Deletes 500 LiveJournals, Many Fannish |publisher=Firefox.org |access-date=2010-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226081112/http://firefox.org/news/articles/408/1/Six-Apart-Deletes-500-LiveJournals-Many-Fannish/Page1.html |archive-date=26 February 2010 }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=January 2009}}<ref name="informationweek">{{cite web |url=http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/05/child_sex_crack.html |title=Child Sex Crackdown Causes Problems For LiveJournal |publisher=Informationweek.com |access-date=2010-03-29 |archive-date=2009-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601030633/http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/05/child_sex_crack.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="afterelton">{{cite web |last=Keith |first=Christie |url=http://www.afterelton.com/blog/christiekeith/live-journal-the-blogging-platform-that-gay-sex-built |title=LiveJournal: The blogging platform that gay sex built |publisher=Afterelton.com |access-date=2010-03-29 |archive-date=2009-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722014218/http://www.afterelton.com/blog/christiekeith/live-journal-the-blogging-platform-that-gay-sex-built |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to Six Apart chairman and chief executive Barak Berkowitz, "We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn't think met our policies and didn't think they were appropriate to have up".<ref name="cnet" /> In a subsequent posting to the LiveJournal news community,<ref name=screwed/> he apologized, discussed some of the circumstances behind the suspensions, and indicated that the suspended journals would be reviewed and potentially brought back online. In particular, he noted that Livejournal's normal practice of reviewing suspensions and notifying suspended account holders had not been followed:
<blockquote><nowiki>[T]hese</nowiki> journals were suspended for easily correctable problems <nowiki>[...] [T]his</nowiki> was not communicated to the journal or community owners at all.
<nowiki>[T]hese</nowiki> journals were taken down before review could be completed to avoid mistakes.</blockquote>

Most of the backlash was from [[fan fiction]] writers whose communities and personal journals were among those suspended, seemingly because they listed interests such as "[[incest]]" or "non-con" (short for non-consensual).<ref name="cnet" /> Although these communities did not necessarily encourage illegal behavior, it has been reported that there was no further investigation into the content of these journals.<ref name=screwed>{{cite web | url=https://news.livejournal.com/99159.html | title=Well we really screwed this one up… | publisher=LiveJournal | date=May 31, 2007 | access-date=November 8, 2020 | archive-date=November 9, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109024737/https://news.livejournal.com/99159.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

Beyond merely fan communities, many were initially upset that communities entirely unrelated to anything but the discussion, sometimes therapeutic and other times literary, of rape or child molestation were among those suspended.<ref name="cnet" />

On May 31, 2007, Berkowitz released a statement to the LiveJournal news community<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.livejournal.com/99515.html | title=Journals being restored | publisher=LiveJournal | date=May 31, 2007 | access-date=November 8, 2020 | archive-date=October 29, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029205600/https://news.livejournal.com/99515.html | url-status=live }}</ref> announcing that Six Apart was currently in the process of unsuspending about half of suspended journals. The journals being reinstated fell into fandom or fiction categories or were journals that were suspended for problems related only to the contents of their profiles. In an earlier interview with [[news.com]],<ref name="cnet"/> he had stated that he would be "shocked" if "more than a dozen" journals would be reinstated.

On July 19, 2007, Abe Hassan at LiveJournal released a statement clarifying LiveJournal's suspension policies.<ref>{{cite web |author=Abe Hassan (burr86) wrote in lj_biz, 2007-07-19 22:03:00 |url=https://lj-biz.livejournal.com/241428.html |title=lj_biz: more clarifications |publisher=LiveJournal |date=July 19, 2007 |access-date=2020-11-08 |archive-date=2020-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114104955/https://lj-biz.livejournal.com/241428.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A further statement was made on August 7, 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lj-biz.livejournal.com/241884.html |title=lj_biz: Illegal and Harmful Content Policy Clarifications |publisher=Livejournal |date=August 7, 2007 |access-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922025259/https://lj-biz.livejournal.com/241884.html |url-status=live }}</ref>