What I find really amusing ...

[apocalypsos]

... about SUP's censoring of LJ interests is that it doesn't actually eliminate discussion of any of the topics or fanfiction or talk about boys making out, it just hides it from public consumption.

Which is great, because when advertisers and new customers sign up, it'll be a lot like showing up at a family-friendly chain restaurant -- you know, the kind with old board games and metal lunch boxes with old TV show pictures on the front -- ordering your fancy cheeseburger, and getting comfortable. And then when Mom gets up to run to the bathroom, she takes a wrong turn in the back and stumbled onto a big gay orgy with ten naked college boys, two teenage girls in Japanese school uniforms, a monkey, a guy in a furry costume, something with tentacles, a pregnant Captain Jack Harkness, three gimps in full leather attire, a rack, seven pink dildos, a barrel full of lube, and the Scissors Sisters playing on the stereo.

Which means that either Mom goes back to the management and demands their money back, or she takes one look at the scene in question and says, "Hey, is that cherry-flavored lube? I love cherry-flavored lube! Hold on, I'll go get my husband! And maybe Grandma!"

Comments

[lorax]

. . . . I seriously cannot stop laughing at that. Everytime I think I've stopped I read it again and start giggling.

There should be a censored interests ficathon called "Wrong Turn At TGIFridays."

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

That's how I found fandom. =)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

It's been too long since your last metaquotesing. May I?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Sure go ahead. :)

[mog-bane.livejournal.com]

I don't care if you ever say anything else this wise witty and humorous ever again. I have to friend you now on the off chance that sometime in the future, I may be able to read something this funny again.

Now that I've cleared the tears of laughter and put the brace on to support my aching sides, I can do that. Thanks! My neighbors are now sure of my insanity.

I hope you don't mind.

[medie]

*snicker* Yeah, it doesn't really! and it keeps us off the radar of the people we *want* to avoid, while sekritly luring in everybody else.

[sabotabby]

Beat me to it!

[toshirodragon.livejournal.com]

And truly isnt that how WE ALL found the things we love so much? ~_*

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!

Gold.

[silverkit.livejournal.com]

Ok, you've got me laughing so hard I'm crying.

[tygress.livejournal.com]

That sounds exactly how I found fandom. 'Hey.. whats behind this door- WHOA... whoa...SO WRONG...MY EYES...

*peeks*

wait....ok... well actually sort of hot..hmmm. Maybe I'll stay. Just.. ya know, to see what happens.'

::delurks::

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

This is starting to remind me of the censoring of language in 1984, when the PTB slowly morphed the language so there were no words in which to form rebellion anymore...

And come on! Censoring the words "boys" and "girls"?! How much more innocuous can they get?!

Re: ::delurks::

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, really, if we're being realistic, they're not censoring anything. You can still search for the interests, you can still have the interests, advertisers just can't see them on a list of the most popular interests. They've effectively neutered and tamed the list so that they can sell advertising space on the site in an effort to make sure that none of it is controversial, uncomfortable to anyone, or sexually suggestive, which they have to make sure of now that pretty much everybody is going to have to see it. Quite frankly, it doesn't affect any of us and nobody's getting screwed, although now the list does make us look like the Brady Bunch.

It is a lot like hiding the porn in the closet, though. ;)