LJ has finally opened their traps and clarified their stand on the whole p0rnography angle of issues:
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/241884.html

I must confess to being puzzled myself. Why aren't they going after REAL child p0rn than fictional ones? And as for the pro-anorexia communities being allowed to stay on, their apparent reasoning was that such comms do "more good than bad" by warning people away from such acts. Erm, PRO-anorexia comms warning people away from anorexia? EPIC FAIL.

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What LJ really needs to do now is to explain the 2 cases of suspension, because from the comments I am reading it seems like people are still up in arms over the how and why exactly for this situation.

Also, a bit late to doing housekeeping and suddenly say, "this is the type of community we want", isn't it? They should have spelt this out from the start instead of springing it on us during 1) Memorial Day weekend, 2) Harry Potter DH weekend, and 3) Friday.

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I still can't get over the fact that it's specifically 2 HP artists whose HP artworks led to them being hit in this fiasco. It is just too... coincidental? Selfishly, I am glad I am no longer in the HP fandom because otherwise I'll have to follow the pack and move off LJ or something. My gut tells me that this won't be the last of the HP-related suspensions.

I have to give LJ time to get their news out to us. They can't possibly address all our concerns in a single post (which, btw, should totally have been posted to news instead of the biz LJ. But they need to address our concerns, and in a timely manner. My biggest question to them right now is if they will suspend a user for what they deem to be illegal contents even if the contents were hosted off LJ and merely linked to from within LJ?

I am just giggling at how silly they were to try not once, but 3 times to slip their policy changes past their ever-alert user base over such dates. Once it might be a coincidence, but 3 times and it is almost insulting the way they think there is ever a timeout online.

*sets lawyer cap on* Personally I'm curious about this line:

In short, we want to eliminate child porn from being hosted on LiveJournal.

What exactly do they mean by 'host'? Do they mean pictures hosted on their server, or is it enough to just img-src embed an image into a LJ-entry? There's a big different to hosting HP pr0n art on the LJ servers (ie., people uploading the picture to pics.livejournal.com) and people linking or img-src embedding the picture from another location where it's hosted on their own server or a picture archive like Photobucket. If 'hosted' they mean pictures uploaded to pics.livejournal.com their stance is more understandable in that they're actively supporting pornographic material (set aside the issue of whether it's 'right' to judge the picture in the first place), but it's a bit much when people link to the pic when the actual picture file is hosted somewhere that's not LJ.