STRIKETHROUGH '07 - This? Is terrifying.

[kiaxet]

I have no idea if this is  true or not, but if it is, it scares the bloody hell out of me.

Take a look.

Here's the letter - one of them - that was sent to Six Apart about the "problem." The problem for me, personally, is that I can understand where she's coming from in not wanting pedophiles on the internet where kids could potentially be; however, 1) she forgets about LJ's "only with parental permission are people under 13 here" policy, 2) she assumes there are "thousands" of pedophile sites on LJ, and 3) the banners at the bottom worry me. Man is judged by the company he keeps, after all, and this lady's part of the Redneck Army, the new confederacy, and all sorts of stuff I don't even want to think about. Is this really the kind of person we'd want behind any kind of campaign whatsoever?

...not really.

Thoughts?

Comments

[sbcpanuru.livejournal.com]

Scuttlebutt on Boing Boing is that Warriors for Ignorance Innocence is a Dominionist front; dominionists are a collection of interrelated groups based largely on the writings and philosophy of R.J. Rushdoony in the 50s and 60s, who advocated a "return to" a government based on "Biblical" principles, which should read instead the creation of a government based on authoritarian Protestant fundamentalist dogma. Under these ideals, pagans, homosexuals, Catholics, atheists, etc. all convert to the state church or are executed. This is nothing that dozens of groups of crazies don't already think (just change the name of the One True Pure Inner Circle); what sets dominionists apart is their strategies and organization. Orcinus has written quite a bit in the past about dominionists, as well as other hate groups.

The guideline I use to decide whether a crusade is probably well-intentioned (if not necessarily wise, though sometimes they are) is that things like Megan's Law, taking a specific case and trying to find a general solution to problems like it, are actually concerned with the issues; whereas WforI's appeal to broad, unspecific, emotionally-charged buzzwords (OMG think of the children! without giving a single example of someone who has been harmed by LJ writings) are usually manipulative acts geared toward social control.