LJ flags another comm as 'Explicit Adult Content'

[charmian]

LJ forces a comm to declare itself Explicit Adult Content, then after complaints from the comm owners, changes it to Adult Concepts.

http://ineptshieldmaid.dreamwidth.org/192601.html

While I don't really approve of LJ's policy, although I do acknowledge they are within their rights to have such a policy, I'm confused as to why anyone is surprised by this. This has been LJ's stated policy for a long time (possibly ever since the flag was introduced?), and just a while ago, the exact same thing happened to fanficrants.

And, although people are referencing the ToS, the FAQs clearly state that this is the policy:

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=281
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=196

Comments

[amadi]

Oh, they do act that way, I'm just saying that they don't really have justification for doing so.

[charmian]

I don't really know, though. The ToS reserves some pretty broad powers to LJ. They say they 'might' call on you to restrict the content, which is not the same as promising they definitely will.

[amadi]

This is true, but the ToS does go to the detail of a sequence for how adult content issues will be handled, to do something completely outside of that sequence is bad faith, at the very least.

[charmian]

Hah, maybe they'll claim that since the TOS basically says that they can remove content whenever they want at their sole discretion, this is somehow related.