LOLZ! Seriously now, as if! Cutting to the chase -- like eBay, all the good stuff is here and you are used to it, so you won't change, or if you do you will be back soon.b
All the good stuff may still be here, but when I'm constantly needing to confirm I'm over 14 to actually see the entries on my Friends page, the bad stuff *does* get rather unignorable.
I suppose because I didn't enter one when I created it. And the idea that the petty inconveniences they are introducing can get me to either give them additional information that I didn't choose to give them (if I enter my actual birthdate) or enter a factual untruth (if I enter a false one) just gets up my nose. I'm sure there are times I've relayed my age or age range online, and times I've entered a blatantly false one--but I've never done because I was annoyed into doing so after I'd decided not to give it.
It's not a great moral stance or anything. It's just faint irritation at the thought of doing it because the new system got under my skin.
Except, of course, that once again they're blocking "interests" that include wanting to stop all those things and support groups and the like, and they're blocking anti-*thing* interests, and they're blocking "spice girls" and "aspic" because those contain the phrase "spic"....
And they blocked that so they could also get "spics", "I hate spics", "you suck spic" "dirty spic took my job" and all the other possible uses of the word.
Probably, but there's no law against allowing people to search for unsavory terms. And if what they're worried about is the illegal things people might do with the results of their searches, they didn't do a very good job picking terms that actually make sense; I kind of doubt there are any LJ communities that will instruct people on how to start a genocide, for example.
If there are troublesome (which is to say, illegal) accounts out there, they should do the less lazy thing and actually deal with them. Especially since blocking searches makes it harder to find totally legitimate accounts, such as endgenocide and abusesurvivor.
I love the implication that people will find child porn by searching for "child porn" on LJ. Because I'm so sure distributors of child porn would put "child porn" in their interests.
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Date: 2007-12-07 06:16 pm (UTC)Trapped in amber
Date: 2007-12-07 08:25 pm (UTC)Re: Trapped in amber
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Date: 2007-12-09 01:37 am (UTC)Re: Trapped in amber
Date: 2007-12-09 05:37 am (UTC)Re: Trapped in amber
Date: 2007-12-09 06:09 am (UTC)I suppose because I didn't enter one when I created it. And the idea that the petty inconveniences they are introducing can get me to either give them additional information that I didn't choose to give them (if I enter my actual birthdate) or enter a factual untruth (if I enter a false one) just gets up my nose. I'm sure there are times I've relayed my age or age range online, and times I've entered a blatantly false one--but I've never done because I was annoyed into doing so after I'd decided not to give it.
It's not a great moral stance or anything. It's just faint irritation at the thought of doing it because the new system got under my skin.
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Date: 2007-12-09 06:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-12-07 07:10 pm (UTC)How do you figure?
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Date: 2007-12-07 07:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-07 07:12 pm (UTC)... and holy crap, that last made me sound like a Team Fortress wanker.
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Date: 2007-12-07 07:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-07 09:16 pm (UTC)*checks*
*boggles*
It's *aspic.* It's a *meat jelly*. It has an ancient and honourable culinary history. It's... gyahhhh!
Idiots.
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Date: 2007-12-07 09:18 pm (UTC)And they blocked that so they could also get "spics", "I hate spics", "you suck spic" "dirty spic took my job" and all the other possible uses of the word.
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Date: 2007-12-07 09:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-07 07:24 pm (UTC)If there are troublesome (which is to say, illegal) accounts out there, they should do the less lazy thing and actually deal with them. Especially since blocking searches makes it harder to find totally legitimate accounts, such as
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Date: 2007-12-07 09:29 pm (UTC)(They blocked *aspic!*)
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Date: 2007-12-07 07:31 pm (UTC)