It’s Just Fiction

Pedophilia is not illegal. It’s sick and disgusting, but technically not illegal. Writing child sex/rape stories is also sick and disgusting, but technically not illegal.

Why do we want the child sex/rape stories removed from the internet?

Hmm, besides being vile and horrible beyond imagination??

It never ceases to amaze me that people hide behind the words "story" or "fiction" or "legal". While child rape/sex stories may not be illegal, they are pedophilia.

"Oh, but how can a story cause harm?", you ask. "It’s not real. I’m not condoning the behavior just because I write about it. It’s fiction for God’s sake!"

I’m not talking about an abuse victim asking for help and writing about their abuse in a therapeutic way. So don’t even go there with this. I am talking about people who write "stories" or "fiction" about children being sexually assaulted, molested, and raped. Whether it be for discussion or pleasure, detailed stories of explicit child sex is wrong. Saying that you enjoy writing these sexually explicit stories, and then saying that you are not a pedophile is laughable at best. Hiding behind terms like "story" or "fiction" or "legal" doesn’t excuse your behavior or prevent you from being a pedophile.

Pedophiles are sexually attracted to children. They often write child sex stories. They get off on these stories and pictures of children. The more ‘stories’ they read and ‘enjoy’, the more they fantasize about children. REAL CHILDREN.

So saying it’s just fiction, doesn’t cut it.

The LiveJournal Tapdance

Unless you've been living in a cave for the past week, you've probably already heard that LiveJournal, or LJ, had suspended hundreds of journals that they felt violated their terms of service. Warriors For Innocence had reported many journals that were "authored" by admitted pedophiles, and promoted illegal activity. LJ initially refused to do anything about them, but finally agreed; "even idiots get it right once in a while."

Unfortunately, LJ also deleted hundreds of unrelated journals, much to the dismay of many authors. In an effort to quell the huge backlash that they were receiving from their broad blanket of suspenses, they apologized, agreed to review each journal, and reinstate those that were mistakenly suspended. In their zeal to grease the squeaky wheel, they have also seen fit to reinstate many of the very journals that started this entire issue: those of admitted pedophiles. Nifty.

The word of the fine folks at LJ seems about as valuable as a wooden nickel. I hope you LJ customers have any and all agreements with them in writing.

The folks at Perverted Justice share that opinion, and even list LJ as a "corporate sex offender" for their habit of harboring pedophiles. Seems that pedophiles are still "okie dokie" on LiveJournal.

Missing The Point

Since so many people continue to submit emotion-based complaints about how "awful" it is that LiveJournal has chosen to enforce their own terms of service, here's a few points to consider:

-Comment moderation is on; we're not deleting comments.

-We simply reported journals that contained objectionable and, in some cases, illegal content which clearly violated LJ's TOS.

-LJ deleted journals of THEIR choosing.

-Readers/writers then began pointing the finger in every direction except toward those that CHOSE to violate LJ's TOS.

-Excuses galore have been pouring in, and heartfelt, "but I had been working on that journal for years," abound, while failing to acknowledge that they had not only not backed it up in years, but had been blatantly violating LJ's TOS for years.

-Claims have been made that we haven't "taken responsibility for" our actions. Yes; we have. We've clearly stated what we've done.

-Claims have been made that we're "hurting" the "legitimate" effort to fight pedophiles. How? By striving to ensure that their attempts to legitimize their sick ideas are not ignored by those that host them? Other claims that "law enforcement can't monitor them now" are baseless as well. They've already been reported to law enforcement, and those that make these claims are naive if they believe that LE cannot monitor these individuals simply because LJ has deleted their journals. Computer forensics has progressed by leaps and bounds in recent years.

Let the caterwauling and complaining continue; LJ has chosen to enforce rules that WERE ALREADY IN PLACE for all to see. "I finally got held accountable, and it's all your fault" won't fly here.

LiveJournal – Six Apart Delete Hundreds of Pedophile Sites

LiveJournal Says No to Pedophiles:

Setting a new precedent, LiveJournal, owned by Six Apart Incorporated, deleted over 500 of its sites or journals today. Responding to requests from Warriors For Innocence, LiveJournal chose to remove sites that promote pedophilia, child sex, child abuse, and other illegal activities.

LiveJournal has revised their Terms Of Service (TOS) to include new standards that will ensure that they protect the safety and well-being of everyone who visits LiveJournal.

As pedophiles and their sympathizers scramble to find new hosting options, we will be following them and contacting each web host in order to work to enforce a TOS that will ensure that these hosts maintain a responsible and respectable reputation.

LiveJournal and Six Apart have taken a very important step. They chose to maintain accountability for the content placed on their sites. By setting this precedent, they have opened the door for other web hosting companies like Blogger/Google, Blog.com, Xanga, Wordpress, and others to follow in their footsteps.

Special thanks go out to Scott Kraft, the Executive Vice President of Marketing for Six Apart, and Denise Paolucci, the Manager of Customer Service for LiveJournal. They have both been very helpful.

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Many LJ users that have had their journals deleted are complaining to WFI that we targeted them and that we are on a witch hunt to shut down innocent sites.

To answer your questions and concerns, we do know what Lolita is and no, we did not report sites that are about Lolita fashion. Those sites were deleted by LJ because LJ (not WFI) chose to delete all sites with certain “interests” listed.

“Did it ever occur to you people that some of the people who have “incest” or “rape” in their interests are victims of said action?”

Yes, it did. We can tell the difference between a pedophile site and a survivor/support group site. And no, we did not ask for the survivor/support group sites to be deleted. We actually expressed our concern over keeping them up and running even though their interests may be listed as the same as a pedophile site.

You may find it easy to blame us for the deletion of these sites, but we are disturbed by their deletions as well. LJ is obviously trying to avoid accusations of discrimination by deleting all sites with specific interests listed. They made that decision, not WFI. Go ahead and point a finger at us. Call us vigilantes and idiots. Accuse us of banning or deleting you. But you forgot something. LJ is hosting your sites. It’s their call, not WFI’s.

I have no problem standing up and saying that yes, innocent journals were deleted by LJ. Yes it was done because I complained to LJ about pedophiles on their site. Yes, this has caused a lot of problems for a lot of people. And yes, I am sorry that there has been mass hysteria over this. But NO, we are not responsible. I will not take the blame for LJ enforcing their rules as they see fit. I may have been the catalyst, but I did not make the decisions for LJ. LJ can delete any journals that THEY view as containing objectionable content. Childish complaints that I “targeted” this journal, or that journal, are misplaced, and serve no purpose.

Many of you see us as wacky, unreliable, and misguided. You question the legality and legitimacy of what we do. You’ve threatened to turn us into the police and to call Quantico. You’ve threatened to sue us. You wonder who we are and what TOS we follow.

Well, here’s the scoop. We are Warriors For Innocence. We are NOT a non profit organization. We are a group of people who are sick and tired of pedophiles and child molesters hurting children and having a say on the internet without any type of accountability.

We do not break the law and we do not advocate breaking the law. For those of you who have been wondering, our Predator Barrier page is perfectly legal. Have you ever watched To Catch a Predator? Maybe you should.

Yes, we are working to clear out the RSO’s and predators on MySpace, we just don’t post about it.

“Can’t you people see that by attacking fandom journals, you’re driving the real pedophiles underground…”

No, that’s not the case. First of all, we didn’t attack fandom journals. Second, the “real pedophiles” are on many sites. They post on pedophile chat boards. They are on there now posting where their new sites are moving to. And yes, we will be following them, and we will be more proactive in the future at protecting ‘innocent’ sites.

There are sites where pedophiles are telling very young children that what their parents are teaching them is wrong, and that they should listen to pedophiles because they know what's best for them. The pedophiles tell kids that "bad touch" is not really bad, just because your parents said so. This is dangerous to children.

There are sites that advocate the lowering of the age of consent for sex. They describe their encounters with small children and talk about how sexy the 5 year old was and how turned on they are when the child smiles at them.

They also post explicit child rape stories for the purpose of sexually arousing themselves and other pedophiles.

This is pedophilia. This is why we do what we do.