Today, LJ / SixApart decided to lose their minds. Based on simple posting / interest tags and the word of a hastily-erected right-wind fundie front group, a slew of Live Journals were deleted. There was little or no reason, and certainly no warning.

Ostensibly, the targeted groups and diaries were front groups for pedophelia- an absolutely horrendous, sickening, and perverse violation of children for the sake of sexual titillation. The execution was stunning; people with the words lolita, rape, yaoi, and even twincest were summarily chucked out the window.

Let me put this in perspective. That means that:

The group behind the whistleblowing is called “Warriors for Innocence”. These wonderful people are racists, homophobic, and Christian dominionists. Nice mix, right? Here is the blog of the woman running this seedy little two-person operation. I won’t be listing the WoI site, since it seems that it is full of trackbots (Adware scans of IE users are coming up with 150+ critical objects after just one visit). Google it and take your chances, if you’d like.

At any rate, this is an awful travesty of speech rights, at the very least, and a frightening example of vigilantism gone amok. Pedos should be tracked down like the rabid dogs they are, but leave that work to law enforcement, Amber Alert, and Perverted Justice- you know, people with training?

This Friday, there’s going to be an online LJ protest. Click here to read about it.

Go here to read more about this, as well as visit more links pertaining to these events.

Go here for support banners and relevent contact information for LJ and WoI.

And, just so you know…I’m a survivor of multiple instances of molestation myself, so I’m NOT condoning any pedo bullshit whatsoever.

ETA: The head of Six Apart just posted (4:10 AM) a news article titled, “Well, we really screwed this one up.” They’re trying to fix their screw-up. Good. Although, I gotta say, I think the damage is already done.