An lj user has been stealing the userpics of female lj'ers and assesssing them as "rapeable" or not. The user who brought this to our attention reported him to LJAbuse, and this is the respose she got:

Dear user,

Thank you for your report. We have reviewed the content in question and have found no violations of LiveJournal's Terms of Service. While mention of the illegal activity rape is present, the user in question provides no instructional information or intent to commit the illegal activity. Rath
er, the content appears to be hyperbole. As such, we will be unable to take action at this time. If you become aware of future possible violations of LiveJournal's Terms of Service, please submit a new request so that we may handle the matter at that time.

Regards,
Scott
LiveJournal Abuse Team

Edited: I have submitted a response to the Abuse team of my own giving them a piece of my mind, and I'll let you know if they say anything interesting.

[ 06 March 2005: Message edited by: googlymoogly ]

You will need to know the user in question's lj username, which is "rapehamstor" (spelling error his, not mine). You also might want to copy and paste the respose I posted in my original post so they can reference to something. I found it in the globalfeminisms community.

Edited: Here's a link to where the abuse actually is: you'll need that too.

[ 06 March 2005: Message edited by: googlymoogly ]

I'm wondering if they didn't send something to him? I looked at the journal in question and he only has 1 entry. Also the 'target' of that entry seems OK with being called rapeable, according to her comments: "I dare you" and "looks like I've made a new friend @_@". I wonder if he had others that were deleted?

I'm not sure there's enough documented evidence left to make them change their minds, but maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

This pretty much reinforces my decision never to post a recognizable picture of myself on my LJ.

Edited due to gm's post, which made mine redundant.

[ 06 March 2005: Message edited by: dokidoki ]

[ 06 March 2005: Message edited by: dokidoki ]

If the entries are private, this is where my feminist values butt up against my libertarian values, and in this case the libertarian in me wins. I won't be sending a letter to complain about a series of livejournal entries that are available to a limited audience, even if I think the content is objectionable.

I also don't feel comfortable protesting something I haven't seen with my own eyes.

[ 06 March 2005: Message edited by: googlymoogly ]

Their response to me:

Dear user,

Although we agree that the content in question is disturbing and in poor taste, it does not constitute a violation of the LiveJournal Terms of Service. The content posted is simply an opinion, and we allow the expression of a wide range of opinions on LiveJournal, as long as no explicit threats of physical harm are made against any particular group of people. The content in question discusses such violent acts in positive terms, but does not actively encourage others to commit these acts. As such, we will be unable to assist you.

If the content in question disturbs you, we respectfully suggest that you simply refrain from reading the journal.

Regards,

Scott

So basically, put up or shut up. Yet they have banned accounts that are racist, homophobic, etc. (i.e. an lj user whose name was something like "blackcock" or something like that was banned, yet they keep this up. I'm deleting my account.

[ 06 March 2005: Message edited by: googlymoogly ]

This debate strikes me as making about as much sense as it would for someone to come here and say "they have a thread and poster over on FreekDom, it's totally offensive, yet they won't remove it.

And James, you'll also be happy to note that above, I stated that I was deleting my account, so I actually did leave!

[ 06 March 2005: Message edited by: googlymoogly ]

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Originally posted by Mandos:
LJ is not a board like FD and babble. It's a blog service of a sort. I think it's useful information.

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[ 06 March 2005: Message edited by: James ]

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Originally posted by Mandos:
LJ is not a board like FD and babble. It's a blog service of a sort.

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http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=rapehamstor

fails to violate the following portions of the TOS:

[quote="FAQ #107"]Comments, entries, journals and posts not permitted on LiveJournal include but are not limited to:

* Content created solely to harass another user
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* Content that incites violence against an individual, ...[/quote]

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Interests:
26: RAPE, RAPING _fap_, RAPING ashi_moto, RAPING beanochavez, RAPING butterweasel, RAPING cheetofish, RAPING death_by_cancer, RAPING dgt, RAPING duffey....

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FD is a special case because of all the cross-board flame wars that have happened in the past. Everyone who has been posting on babble for more than a month or two, or who knows the history between babble and FD KNOWS this. And even the FD thing isn't an actual written RULE on babble - it's not in the policy statement. It's just become a convention on here (and a damn good one, I think).

Posting about this thing about LiveJournal, however, is no different than posting any other offensive internet site or advertisement in order to get action to stop it. I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with googlymoogly posting this here in order to try to get some action.

OrgName: Everyones Internet, Inc.
OrgID: EVRY
Address: 2600 Southwest Freeway
Address: Suite 500
City: Houston
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 77098
Country: US

NetRange: 67.15.0.0 - 67.15.175.255
CIDR: 67.15.0.0/17, 67.15.128.0/19, 67.15.160.0/20
NetName: EVRY-BLK-15
NetHandle: NET-67-15-0-0-1
Parent: NET-67-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.EV1.NET
NameServer: NS2.EV1.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2004-02-06
Updated: 2004-10-11

TechHandle: RW172-ARIN
TechName: Williams, Randy
TechPhone: +1-713-400-5400
TechEmail: [email protected]

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE477-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: ABUSE
OrgAbusePhone: +1-713-400-5400
OrgAbuseEmail: [email protected]

OrgNOCHandle: NOC1445-ARIN
OrgNOCName: NOC
OrgNOCPhone: +1-713-400-5400
OrgNOCEmail: [email protected]

OrgTechHandle: RW172-ARIN
OrgTechName: Williams, Randy
OrgTechPhone: +1-713-400-5400
OrgTechEmail: [email protected]

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Originally posted by Hinterland:
Yeesh...Hey, PB, Lena, Swallow (and a couple of others, maybe)...Got your beads handy? Join me in this thread for the Rite of Exorcism.

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Originally posted by Hinterland:
If CSIS and the RCMP are doing their jobs, nothing.

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Originally posted by Hinterland:
Go for Rosary 2.24 Gold. They really did clear up the problems they had in the beta.

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CSIS would have no interest in this unless you can demonstrate how this guy is a threat to national security.

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Don't you have a CSIS operative shadowing you? I thought everyone did.

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Oh, I was actually going for Mozilla's Fireprayer Beads 2.0 Final Release.

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Originally posted by Hinterland:
Don't you have a CSIS operative shadowing you? I thought everyone did.

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Oh, probably. But I am a threat to national security.

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Originally posted by writer:
And what do we do with the above information?

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Perhaps the people directly affected, if they knew this information would be able to complain the ISP of the hamster in question.

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OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE477-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: ABUSE
OrgAbusePhone: +1-713-400-5400
OrgAbuseEmail: [email protected]

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Maybe I'm missing something but doesn't that seem like an abuse complaint e-mail and phone number?

It might be good to complain to the abuse department first ([email protected]), highlighting the ways this user has violated the Acceptable Use Policy (with specific references). If you still get no results, I'd keep writing, but start CC'ing some of their higher-profile clients on the emails in question. That usually gets a reaction.

[ 20 March 2005: Message edited by: audra trower williams ]