LJ abuse go ape?

[ciphergoth]

Updated: meta has updated his web page.

meta, who I've known for over a decade but never met, has had his account suspended by the LJ abuse team. Here's his side of the story. Now, in context, the "innocent" act of copying a publically available address from one place to another isn't innocent at all - it reads as an incitement to violence - but nonetheless, it's pretty clear that if things are as he describes them, the Abuse team's response is pretty inappropriate.

I'd like to link to the support request, but we don't have the privs to see it.

Comments

[nickys.livejournal.com]

> Posting information about person X that person X publishes themselves on their public web pages should never be a TOS violation

Yes. There are different levels of 'publically available' after all.

Some of my personal details ended up on the Internet because I originally allowed them to be put in an obscure printed magazine (circulation figures in the hundreds), which then produced a web version of itself and republished my stuff without asking my permission.


Having said that, unless meta was in the habit of doing stuff which brought him to the attention of the LJ Abuse team, their response seems a bit heavy handed.
It's a bit much for a first offence.