I hope you don't mind if I play devil's advocate here. I say this with sincerity, not as somebody hiding behind "devil's advocacy" just to put out an unpopular view. What you have written is generally in line with what i have said and thought about the situation. I am aware, though, that legal matters don't generally come down on the side of what a bunch of young people with amorphous understandings of the internet collectively belief something to mean. The internet is new and written policies and their enforcements are coming to matter a lot more than we might want, so it is somewhat understandable that they would want to cover their asses on this.
I'm with you completely on a need for more open discussion about things such as age and attitudes toward sexuality and consent. I'm just not sure we can expect Livejournal to enact that for us, since it is they that will face the greater repercussions if some judge doesn't read smart people like Hanne Blank.
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Date: 2007-05-31 05:54 pm (UTC)I'm with you completely on a need for more open discussion about things such as age and attitudes toward sexuality and consent. I'm just not sure we can expect Livejournal to enact that for us, since it is they that will face the greater repercussions if some judge doesn't read smart people like Hanne Blank.