In between cooking tasks while I wait for the oven to heat up, so here’s a news story that explains the latest Six Apart/Livejournal stupidity.

The only thing you really need to know?

“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.”
–Barak Berkowitz, chairman and CEO, Six Apart

I guess they are shooting for a perfect little homophobic, racist and “moral” community, which isn’t the one they bought into. Like I said before, Six Apart is only good at one thing … the destruction of communities and the loyalty of their users.

And this is also an excellent quote worthy of passing on as well:

For its part, LiveJournal’s abuse staff has defended pulling the plug on the communities by saying: “Material which can be interpreted as expressing interest in, soliciting or encouraging illegal activity places LiveJournal at considerable legal risk.” That led one user, “femmequixotic,” to reply: “I list ‘gay marriage’ among my interests–that is illegal in my state. With this wording my journal could be deleted, without warning, for the fact that I support equal rights of marriage for all.”

Back to the kitchen for me! Just wanted to pass that on.

Thanks for the news story link, Jen. I haven’t even read any news today at all, which explains why I am in a good mood.