Wait ... what? Banning internet fetishes and thereby angering the fandom community into a stupor?Do I sense internet terrorism on the horizon, because it definitely seems that we're heading in that direction. I'm waiting for the day a site is razed in a virtual atomic blast. :)

Honestly, trying to get rid of pedophilia is a worthy cause, and should be applauded; but taking down sites and journals that have a unique fetish, with no real-world malevolence taking place, is just wrong - on more than one level. Hell, they were taking down support groups, and that has nothing to do with fetishes. As for Lolita - its a literary classic. What, are you all going to take down "A Clockwork Orange" discussion groups next?

I agree with you though - if they move on to try and take down Something Awful, I will be sure to have a front row seat for the catastrophe that would surely unfold. Heck, I'll definitely be there if they try to take down any of the "chan" imageboards. Nothing like a swarm of angry otaku to please the inner deviant. >:D
This just may turn out to be the internet event of the year: "Vigilantes strike to take down those who are different!"

There's a pretty good explaination about why this happened over here:

http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/stewardess_/683.html

LOL Yeah, quite a few people waited to see what would happen when Those Who Deal Out Internet Justice caught wind of this. I was fairly certain SA would do nothing. There's no love for LJ over there, but they were sympathetic (as much as a goon could be). The only way something like that would happen was if WfI managed to piss off Lowtax (sort of the way Ebaum's world did--which was hysterical), since 'rushing' is a bannable offense over there. If WfI ever were to cross SA, I'm sure Lenoard would deal with them, hopefully with same zeal as when he crushed the Ultimate Warrior lawsuit. * lol *

Besides, most of their effort is being pointed at getting a good on "I Love New York", that asinine VH1 show:

http://ilovenewyork2.com/people/TheFireman

Isn't this a thing of beauty? They've managed to get him into the top 5. (yes, I'm voting for him everyday)

I don't know much about the chan boards. I've heard they can be pretty ruthless (even 2chan in Japan).

Hmm... Sounds like someone royally fucked up. Honestly the Wif group sounds like it has a good cause, as I am all for getting rid of child pornography on the web. The problem is when you assign Christian fundies to do an unsupervised job while their moral sticks are shoved so far up their asses you can see it down their throats with a flashlight. Honestly, give a couple of fundies the ability to ban anything and they are going to ban anything that they don't like. I wonder how many of those JL's that they banned contained homosexual fiction.

I honestly wonder if most Christian fundies even read the Bible. Like Zoso said, their 'awesome book of humble moral-ness' contains things that they think should be banned from the internet (especially incest. Seriously, if God only created 2 people, someone had to boink their sister).

To get rid of child pornography is a worthy cause, they just picked the wrong people to carry it out. To all those people that wrongly had their LJ shut down, give 'em hell.

"Vigilantes strike to take down those who are different!"

This pretty much sums it up. I've never understood fetishes about pain, incest, rape, furries, etc. But if it's adults and no on is getting hurt...who the hell am I to judge?

People who clout their own sense of morality around like a club offend me far more than anyone who has a weird kink.