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Latest revision as of 06:44, 20 January 2008
On 30th May 2007, Six Apart permanently suspended hundreds of Livejournal accounts under pressure from a Christian right-wing pressure group Warriors for Innocence, which claims to have the goal of protecting children from online predators. Many journals and communities apparently were suspended because they included words on their list of interests such as incest: this included support communities for incest survivors and many fanfiction communities.
Barak Berkowitz, chairman and chief executive of Six Apart, said in a telephone interview with CNET: "We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn't think met our policies and didn't think they were appropriate to have up."
Many of the journals and communities were later unsuspended. The lack of clarity and communication during the process inspired the formation of what became the Organisation for Transformative Works.