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How else are means justified if not by the ends? The thing that does not justify the means are the intended ends. Results, and to be clear this means all results intended or not, are not justified by good intentions. If someone intends to do good and ends up doing more evil than good in his ignorance it is still evil.
Today the CEO of the service we use here finally posted on the subject of the recent deletions of journals and communities unrelated to their intended target, pedophiles. In our culture calling a person a pedophile is about the worst thing that can be done. Murderers get off easier than pedophiles in the court of public opinion. And that is part of what makes this so fear inducing and rage inspiring. Innocents were caught up in this and tarred with that brush. And because of the way it came off and the two day information vacuum it allowed people like me with terrible imaginations to think, "Who's next? Me?" I don't follow anything like shota or incest fic (in fact I find it rather squicky), but by a strict reading of the law I am sure that some of my activities could be deemed illegal. Such as having written parody fanfic, after all the law of copyright is whatever the lawyers can convince a jury of. Or perhaps some of my posts on homosexuality are too frank for prudes and violate 'community standards' in Ignorant Fuck, Alabama.
Everyone makes mistakes and they are saying all the right PR things now. But for quite some time I've been unhappy with the behavior of Six Apart/Livejournal. The breastfeeding brouhaha, various technical faults, and the negative reputation of Livejournal have all annoyed me, this was just the last straw making me move from not loving the site like I did to actively wishing it ill. And despite the right moves being made I don't think that is going away. Livejournal has, for me, moved from being plucky new kid making something cool and in need of support to being a company like eBay. A fact of life that often cannot be avoided, a less than good service I'll use, but only until I figure out something better. Perhaps I might be motivated enough to learn something about how Wordpress works and set up a site that I would run to my own liking on my own domain. Perhaps not, since I like not having to think about the backside of things. I want the water to come out of the tap without having to struggle with making it work on a regular basis.
So I'm not happy. If I were more... something, I'd be trying for a movement rather than thinking of running away. Like paid users buying the company from Six Apart to make it a non-profit along the lines of the Mozilla Foundation. But I'm not the man to run such a movement and even if I was it would probably be hard to get them to sell. Though my mind keeps coming back to that as a solution. Buy the code and never let us be beholden to any easily stampeded MBA types again.
Today the CEO of the service we use here finally posted on the subject of the recent deletions of journals and communities unrelated to their intended target, pedophiles. In our culture calling a person a pedophile is about the worst thing that can be done. Murderers get off easier than pedophiles in the court of public opinion. And that is part of what makes this so fear inducing and rage inspiring. Innocents were caught up in this and tarred with that brush. And because of the way it came off and the two day information vacuum it allowed people like me with terrible imaginations to think, "Who's next? Me?" I don't follow anything like shota or incest fic (in fact I find it rather squicky), but by a strict reading of the law I am sure that some of my activities could be deemed illegal. Such as having written parody fanfic, after all the law of copyright is whatever the lawyers can convince a jury of. Or perhaps some of my posts on homosexuality are too frank for prudes and violate 'community standards' in Ignorant Fuck, Alabama.
Everyone makes mistakes and they are saying all the right PR things now. But for quite some time I've been unhappy with the behavior of Six Apart/Livejournal. The breastfeeding brouhaha, various technical faults, and the negative reputation of Livejournal have all annoyed me, this was just the last straw making me move from not loving the site like I did to actively wishing it ill. And despite the right moves being made I don't think that is going away. Livejournal has, for me, moved from being plucky new kid making something cool and in need of support to being a company like eBay. A fact of life that often cannot be avoided, a less than good service I'll use, but only until I figure out something better. Perhaps I might be motivated enough to learn something about how Wordpress works and set up a site that I would run to my own liking on my own domain. Perhaps not, since I like not having to think about the backside of things. I want the water to come out of the tap without having to struggle with making it work on a regular basis.
So I'm not happy. If I were more... something, I'd be trying for a movement rather than thinking of running away. Like paid users buying the company from Six Apart to make it a non-profit along the lines of the Mozilla Foundation. But I'm not the man to run such a movement and even if I was it would probably be hard to get them to sell. Though my mind keeps coming back to that as a solution. Buy the code and never let us be beholden to any easily stampeded MBA types again.