As far as I can see (having been mainly offline for the past week and only able to glance through my friends list in the past two days) it's another "OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING DUE TO TOS TERMS!" panic?
All I want to say is to them is: guess what. There is no free speech on the Internet, because access to the Internet is controlled and governed by commercial, not governmental, entities.
Most TOSes suck and are anti-end-user. And at some level, everyone in fandom is being affected by one that sucks more and they probably don't even know about. Nobody in XF fandom wants to see the TOS we are under for the Gossamer dedicated server we "own." But, we can't afford to buy pure bandwidth to some location (when you're only buying the exchange of BITS a lot of the restrictions go away due to the common carrier status of the provider coming into play). No little entity can.
And while LJ may have a far amount of fandom on it right now, fandom is not the be-all-end-all of LJ. And LJ is not the be-all-end-all of fandom. Fandom is both a blessing and a curse to a commercial entity like LJ, and they do have to balance when the curse of fandom (or various aspects within) outweighs all else.
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Date: 2008-03-20 02:58 pm (UTC)All I want to say is to them is: guess what. There is no free speech on the Internet, because access to the Internet is controlled and governed by commercial, not governmental, entities.
Most TOSes suck and are anti-end-user. And at some level, everyone in fandom is being affected by one that sucks more and they probably don't even know about. Nobody in XF fandom wants to see the TOS we are under for the Gossamer dedicated server we "own." But, we can't afford to buy pure bandwidth to some location (when you're only buying the exchange of BITS a lot of the restrictions go away due to the common carrier status of the provider coming into play). No little entity can.
And while LJ may have a far amount of fandom on it right now, fandom is not the be-all-end-all of LJ. And LJ is not the be-all-end-all of fandom. Fandom is both a blessing and a curse to a commercial entity like LJ, and they do have to balance when the curse of fandom (or various aspects within) outweighs all else.