Figure it's big enough to put here.

So first, pornish_pixies is mysteriously suspended. No explanation, at least so far. And so is sbrb_blackcest, shota, wonkaslash, lol_porn, and afamilyaffair, as well as some of Ataniell's RP journals. Other comms (dailydeviant, hp_incest) seem to have self-deleted in an attempt to ride out the wave. Starting to notice a pattern?

liz_marcs thinks she's found the culprit; Warriors for Innocence has recently turned their vigilante anti-child-porn eye onto LJ, and they don't like what they see. She's written an email to them, and promises to tell us all about their reply a bit later. (Note: people are reporting SPYWARE on the WfI website, so be careful.)

It's plenty wanky already, with people mostly locking down their content and/or shaking their fists, but I don't see any way that this will not balloon into a screaming match that makes Fanlib look like a tea party once people start getting home from work and liz_marcs posts WfI's response.

ETAs:
There's a running tally of suspended/deleted comms and LJs here.

Femmequixotic gets a reply: pornish_pixies was TOS'd for the incest

Also, to those who find the server particularly robust, adding ?style=mine or ?format=light to the end of the link or hitting ctrl-shift-R to clear your cache may help a bit.

The response to liz-marc's email: WfI says they didn't report any fandom comms, and weren't even aware of fandom at all. Are they in CYA mode, or is our princess really in another castle?

You know it's big when Aja and Heidi are talking to each other again. (Or they made up yoinks ago and this is non-news, but why ruin the moment with facts?)

By modly suggestion, some options for reducing server robustness:
1) Cool it on the macros
2) Turn off images in your browser. Images can be turned off in Firefox via Tools -> Options -> Content and then either switch off "load images automatically" or block JF via the exceptions. In IE, it's Tools -> Options _> Advanced -> Multimedia -> Show Images.

ljsupport makes an official post. And it's somewhat... lacking:
Please remember that you guys, as volunteers, might have more information than the average LJ user about a lot of things, but you almost certainly do not have all the information about any given situation.

In recognition of this, it is very very important that you go out of your way to avoid making any kind of statement that could ever be construed as speaking for LJ, giving information about LJ's plans, or offering any "behind the scenes" information or interpretations.

Please also avoid making references to "friends in high places", "people I know on staff", or any other form of construct that intimates that you have any level of special access to the Inside Workings of LJ, etc. Again, no matter how much information you might have about a situation, you don't have it all, and things you say will get picked up and accepted as gospel truth, even though they are, in many cases, not possessed of the full set of facts.

WfI has made at least two new posts since all this went down, sticking their foot further into their mouth each time. (Note: people are reporting SPYWARE on the WfI website, so be careful.)

People scream at LJ on a news post, from page 6 to... maxing out at page 100, with 5000 comments. And they've now moved to the next older post, which has gone from 17 pages to 40. Oh dear.

LJ finally speaks! ... to the press.

And while we're waiting for LJ's official statement to us... apparently WfI really *is* run by racist homphobic anti-immigration far-far-right-wing Christian dominionists. This is TV-movie perfect, y'all; all it needs is Kevin Bacon teaching us how to dance.

JF is going down for a bit this evening, so don't panic. (I'll delete this ETA when it comes back up.)

You know it's bad when even Perverted Justice is calling you a moron:
LiveJournal continues stupidity... just differently
Today LiveJournal/SixApart deleted a ton of LJ's that violated their "terms of service." We went after LiveJournal/SixApart months ago, with a very specific list of pedophile blogs and communities. Not only were the staff at LiveJournal/SixApart beyond condescending and rude in their replies, they defended the advocacy of pedophilia and pedophile communities as being acceptable under their Terms of Service, something we contested in our original Writeup about them.

So today, LJ decides to finally do something about the pedophile communities that had sprung up on their service. However, rather than listening to us months ago, they decided to just wipe out whole fields of communities whether they were related to those who advocate child rape or not. We're not quite sure who is running the show over at LJ, but until they state without condition that actual pedophile activists and those promoting child rape are disallowed from their service, we will continue to list them as an aggressive Corporate Sex Offender.

Apparently LiveJournal can't tell the difference between what a pedophile community is and a Harry Potter fan-fiction community despite being told months ago which is what.

You've probably all seen this already, but LJ's reponse is here; comments have, of course, already been maxed out. Text here.

... of course, this came after one of the CEOs talked to Metafilter about it. I'm feeling so unloved. *tear*

And new news post: a bunch of stuff has been or will be unsuspended, to boil it down.