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LJ staff here, and responsible for site policy. This rumor spreading about being blocked for posting slash/gay content is unfounded. Their IP address was temporarily blocked from accessing LiveJournal, and this sort of thing does happen due to anti-spam & anti-DDOS measures which are in place, and these unfortunately do produce some false positives and block people who shouldn't be blocked sometimes. This is completely unrelated to their journal's content, though. If there was a problem with angstytimelord's content, it wouldn't still be accessible; you'd see a message indicating that it was suspended. That didn't happen because there is no problem with their content; they haven't violated site policy. We're very anti-censorship, and while Strikethrough did happen, there's not a single person working for LiveJournal who didn't argue against that decision; the people who made it haven't worked for LiveJournal in 5+ years.
Since some concerns about Russians overtaking the site's policy have been raised, I think it's worth clarifying a few things. All content policy issues are handled by people in the U.S. Any admin tools that can be used to restrict access to content on the site are not accessible to anyone in Russia. LiveJournal's datacenter is in the U.S., not Russia. Russian law does not dictate our site policies. The extent to which the Russian government has affected site content is that we do disable access to certain entries to people who are in Russia; when this happens, we display a message that this content is inaccessible within their region. This is to accommodate a law which forces all internet service providers in Russia to block access to any website which does not comply with this. This means if we choose to not block such content in Russia, everyone in Russia gets blocked from accessing all of LiveJournal. There's an article about this law at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/technology/russia-begins-selectively-blocking-internet-content.html?_r=0.
And posted on ATL\s LJ
I've replied to this elsewhere
(http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/3660525.html?thread=83279853#t83279853)
about the site policy aspects of this. I'll summarize again here by
saying this has absolutely nothing to do with site policy, and if you can
PM me any details about what you were sent and by whom, I'd appreciate
it.
What's actually happening is you were/are using a satellite based ISP who
is notorious for having problems accessing LiveJournal pages. What we
believe they do is store the logged-out version of pages and serve these
to anyone on their network instead of sending the logged-in request
directly to LiveJournal to display the real version of pages you should
be seeing. So basically you login, load a new page, and it looks like
you're logged out again. You're not actually being logged out by
LiveJournal; you'll see a bunch of active login sessions if you view
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/logins.bml.
Since some concerns about Russians overtaking the site's policy have been raised, I think it's worth clarifying a few things. All content policy issues are handled by people in the U.S. Any admin tools that can be used to restrict access to content on the site are not accessible to anyone in Russia. LiveJournal's datacenter is in the U.S., not Russia. Russian law does not dictate our site policies. The extent to which the Russian government has affected site content is that we do disable access to certain entries to people who are in Russia; when this happens, we display a message that this content is inaccessible within their region. This is to accommodate a law which forces all internet service providers in Russia to block access to any website which does not comply with this. This means if we choose to not block such content in Russia, everyone in Russia gets blocked from accessing all of LiveJournal. There's an article about this law at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/technology/russia-begins-selectively-blocking-internet-content.html?_r=0.
And posted on ATL\s LJ
I've replied to this elsewhere
(http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/3660525.html?thread=83279853#t83279853)
about the site policy aspects of this. I'll summarize again here by
saying this has absolutely nothing to do with site policy, and if you can
PM me any details about what you were sent and by whom, I'd appreciate
it.
What's actually happening is you were/are using a satellite based ISP who
is notorious for having problems accessing LiveJournal pages. What we
believe they do is store the logged-out version of pages and serve these
to anyone on their network instead of sending the logged-in request
directly to LiveJournal to display the real version of pages you should
be seeing. So basically you login, load a new page, and it looks like
you're logged out again. You're not actually being logged out by
LiveJournal; you'll see a bunch of active login sessions if you view
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/logins.bml.
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