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Jun. 1st, 2006 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brooksmosesThere has, I gather, been a lot of kerfluffle on LJ about default icons showing images of nursing, and the ban thereupon.
A friend of mine wrote up this short essay on her view of the matter. If this kerfluffle is something that's at all important to you, I'd very much suggest that you read it.
The short form, though, is this: This is about the fact that U.S. laws on this sort of thing are vague, and that LiveJournal has a quite reasonable desire to avoid finding themselves in a precedent-setting lawsuit, regardless of whether they have a chance of winning that suit. My addition to that is: Regardless of whether you agree with the decision, if your protest has fewer teeth than "There's a credible threat that you could be sued over this," it's irrelevant and merely serves to increase the drama-fest.
A friend of mine wrote up this short essay on her view of the matter. If this kerfluffle is something that's at all important to you, I'd very much suggest that you read it.
The short form, though, is this: This is about the fact that U.S. laws on this sort of thing are vague, and that LiveJournal has a quite reasonable desire to avoid finding themselves in a precedent-setting lawsuit, regardless of whether they have a chance of winning that suit. My addition to that is: Regardless of whether you agree with the decision, if your protest has fewer teeth than "There's a credible threat that you could be sued over this," it's irrelevant and merely serves to increase the drama-fest.
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Date: 2006-06-02 12:31 pm (UTC)But the problem is, LJ is an international community and an issue that seems to have caused a fit of panic in the US wouldn't turn a hair in the UK or Holland or Scandinavia or other parts of the world.
I haven't breastfed a baby for about 25 years, so this is all totally academic as far as I'm concerned, but I am generally on the side of the breastfeeders. Who on earth are LJ trying to protect here? Who is being offended?
The younger the kid, the more likely they are to witness breastfeeding in real life every day because either their mum will be feeding a younger sibling or they'll be visiting well baby clinics or nurseries where other mums will be breastfeeding. It just makes no sense at all to me. Any argument that they're trying to preserve the innocence of children -- which does apply in the case of sexually explicit images -- just doesn't hold water.