Did anyone know about this?

[thebitterguy]

Apparently an LJ Boycott was on yesterday because they ban icons depicting breastfeeding.

anidada, did you hear about this in any of the groups you're affiliated with?

Comments

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I learned about it from mylescorcoran, and then promptly forgot about it. And then posted yesterday despite feeling that breastfeeding-icon-ban is silly. Crap. 8(

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

Nope, I had no idea. The ban seems somewhat silly, but so does a boycott.

Not that the boycott impacted me in any way. I doubt it had much impact on LJ either, though I could be wrong.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

This blew up the day Claire was born. It's a problem; lj's policy on breastfeeding pics runs directly counter to every obscenity law in North America, and the bf communities just want lj to change their policies to reflect the fact that pictures of bfing are not considered obscene - in fact, they're exempt from obscenity laws with special language in most places.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that LJ bans obscene/adult user pics - b/c I've seen plenty that should've been banned if that were the case.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

They're only banned as default pics. You can show outright pornography in non-default pics, and nothing will be done. The women whose accounts were suspended refused to change their default bfing pics.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Not on those comms anymore, not even going to LLL meetings, at this point, so had no clue about the boycott day -- but I heard about the default pic ban, and thought it was ass. Still do, but don't have any pics that I could scan and turn into icons thusly.