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I'm sure most people involved in fandom in any vague way have heard about the mass banninations that LJ has wrought upon communities and personal journals in response to pressure from right-wing christian fear-mongering hate groups. If you haven't . . . well, in short, yeah. Hundreds of journals and well known fandom communities have been suspended/deleted due to things listed in their interests (not even what they've written about) including slash, pedophilia, incest, lolita, and others. This is in an effort to delete journals supporting pedophilia and the like-- no problem, except that they're indiscriminatly deleting journals . . . like the one literary group discussing the novel Lolita, the well-known and years old fandom staple pornish_pixies, groups having to do with gothic lolita style of dress and CHILD MOLESTATION SUPPORT GROUPS.

For those involved in fandom, I'd strongly support friending fandom_counts. No updates on your flist, just a count to show LJ just how many people are in support of fandom-- and pissed off about the situation.