Say what?

[spudtater]

Edit: Originally posted on Livejournal

If anybody's wondering why my default icon is currently a suckling baby, it is because of this:

LJ considers breastfeeding "inappropriate", threatens to suspend user's journal

See me Fight Teh Power.

Comments

[dsky.livejournal.com]

"So as an American country, LJ can't claim it's "just complying with the law"."


LJ's a country now? O.o

Typos aside. I agree with you, generally.

I think that LJ is not worried about the EVIL BREASTFEEDERS (which is how it is being painted) but more about companies with a zero tolerance policy to downloading porn at work riffling though users' web history and disciplining them for looking at breasts.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

I claim this post for LJania!

Yeah, that may well be the reasoning. But it's a wuss-out. Companies should not be disciplining people for a single 100x100 pixel picture of a breastfeeding mother. They're in the wrong, not people with a good reason for having breastfeeding in their default icon. (Such as, you know, members of a pro-breastfeeding community).

The very point of the icon is to show off with pride the natural function of the breast, in order to challege public perception of breastfeeding as somehow 'dirty'. A high-profile case between a company and its employee would be a brilliant outcome for the boob_nazis. (Umm, assuming the company loses.)

In the end, LJ has to make the choice. Does it want to lose users who are at work all the time, or does it want to lose feminists and free speech fanatics? Which would be best for the company? I'm doing my small bit to (hopefully) persuade them that they want to come down against censorship, not for it.