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

[djm4]

I cant see any reason not to copy a publically available address from one site to another site, although given the reactions so far I will think about this some more.

It's something of a 'shouting "fire!" in a crowded theatre' thing for me. There's nothing wrong with it per se but, if there's something in the context of where you do it that makes it dodgy for some other reason, I don't see 'but the information was publically available' (or, in the theatre, 'I should be free to say the word "fire!"') as an absolute defence.