tsukinofaerii: headdesk (Headdesk)
tsukinofaerii ([personal profile] tsukinofaerii) wrote2007-12-07 11:43 am

*SCREAM* CENSORSHIP!

Well! Here we go again. Oh LJ, do you never learn?

We'll start from the top with an example. Try to search for the interest "spice girls". I'll give you a few moments.

...

Surprised? Would it also surprise you that the term "spic" receives the same results? Also kiddie porn, kkk, prussian blue... And a lot of others.

For those of you who have no bloody clue what I'm talking about, because why would you do a interest search when you know I'm just going to tell you anyways, LiveJournal has clusterfucked again. If you do an interest search for any of the words I mentioned, you get this error message.

Sorry, we're unable to help you find users matching the interests you've provided.


So far there's a lot of words blocks, some by obvious association. (Spice girls and spic, for example.) I've submitted a support request. Within 15 minutes it was made private. My request is as follows:

ID: 824539

Hello. It's come to my attention that a number of interest search terms are now bringing up an error page, and I'd like to know when this issue will be fixed. If this issue was done deliberately, I would like to know the reason for this change, as well as why it was not announced in a public forum such as lj_news.

The error message reads as follows:

Sorry, we're unable to help you find users matching the interests you've provided.

The terms that I have been unable to search for include:

anti child porn, anti child pornography, aryan, asexual pride, child molestation, child sexual abuse, child sexuality, chink, dago, david duke, jewish genocide, genocide, gook, holocaust, kiddie porn, kike, kkk, kkkk, ku klux klan, nigger, prussian blue, raghead, skinhead, skinheads, spic, stormfront, wetback, white pride, wop

Thank you for your time. I hope this matter is resolved quickly and with due care.


I'll update this entry if and when I get a reply.

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ETA 1: Whoops! Take "asexual pride" out of that list. It was one of my test terms. It's searchable. ^^;

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ETA 2: I don't know if this is connected, but usually it's possible to give out a link to a support request with the "&auth=****" addendum that would allow other people to view the request, including yourself if you happen to be logged out.

Mine doesn't work. :/ If I log out or log in as another user and click the link I was given through e-mail, I receive the error message:

You don't have the necessary privilege to view this request.


Is this happening for other private requests, or is it just for ones with this topic? If anyone has support requests out and would test this for me, I'd be grateful. What's the point in supplying a special link if it doesn't work when logged out?

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=824539 & auth= cper

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ETA 3: [livejournal.com profile] marta has commented here that she hadn't been informed of any restrictions on interest searches, and will be inquiring. Since she may have to go through several levels of people to get an answer, and many of those people don't work on weekends, the earliest we can expect a reply is Monday. Given the way LJ operates, make that Friday. :/

Most complete list of known unsearchable terms (to me, at least):

Searchable

afro
anarchists cookbook
anti muslim
beastiality
bitch
black nationalism
black power
black pride
boy love
boysex
bring back slavery
cannibalism
child abuse
child abuse
child abuse
child abusers
child love
Christ Killer
crack whores
cybersex
devil worship
drugs
Ethnic Cleansing
gay power
genocidal
girl love
girlsex
gringos
hate speech
holocaust
holocaust
honkeys
honkies
honkys
incest
japs
jihad
kiddie pr0n
kidnapping
killing people
krauts
making bombs
man boy love
man boy love
man girl love
man rape
marijuana/marajuana
mass murder
master race
molestation
murder
mutilation
naked children
NAMBLA
nazis
nazism
pervert/s
pochos
polack
polacks
porch monkeys
porch monkies
pornography
pornography
prostitution
Prostitution
queer power
rape
rape
rape
raping
raping men
raping women
rapists
roofies
round eyes
sambo
self-injury
serial killing
sex offenders
sex with
sex with animals
sex with boys
sex with girls
sex with minors
sex with teenagers
sexual predators
sexy
shonen ai
short eyes
slanty eyes
suicide
teen hookers
teen prostitution
teen sluts
teenage prostitutes
teenage prostitution
teenage sluts
teenagers
terrorism
terrorism
terrorism
terrorist handbook
terrorists
terrorists
torture
underage
underground organ trade
white race
white race preservation
white separatism
women power
wp
wpww
yaoi
young boys
young girls
zoophelia
zoophilia
Searchable

1488
* genocide/s
*coon
*cracker/s
*fag/s
*spic/s
14/88
aryan/s
baby rape
beaner
beaners
child erotica
child molestation
child perverts
child pornography
child prostitution
child prostitution
child rape
child sex
child sexual abuse
child sexuality
child sluts
child strippers
child torture
chink/s
doo-wop
gooks
heil hitler
heinrich himmler
hospice
kid porn
kid prostitute
kiddie porn
kiddie sluts
kikes
kkk
ku klux klan
kyke
niggers
pornography for children
pornography of children
prepubescent rape
prepubescent sex
raping children
sex with children
sex with children
sex with little boys
sex with little girls
skinheads
spicks
stop child pornography
the chink
third reich
towelheads
underage prostitutes
underage prostitution
underage sex
underage sexuality
white nationalism
white power
white pride
wops
youth pornography


ETA 4: 8:30 AM EST and still no response. This kind of reminds me of the way my dad acted when the Big Questions came up. (Specifically, the, "if you can say it, why can't I?" question. I never got an answer there either.)

[identity profile] maryam.livejournal.com 2007-12-07 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Please do update if you learn anything new! A lot of us are trying to figure out what's going on.

[identity profile] tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com 2007-12-08 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
I certainly will. As of now, I've not received a reply. I think they're all busy trying to figure out how to explain this little disaster.

And I may have just made them mad... I replied to a still-public request on the same topic ( http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=824658 - it's still open ATM). XD Ah, if I get banned, I shall go out in style.