? But what does that matter? If LJ really really really wanted to get rid of everyone who didn't agree with their sense of right and wrong, it would be trivial for them to explicitly state that all underage fiction is not okay too. If they were really serious, they could even revise the TOS and make us all sign a new one stating that we agreed never to post any fiction or art containing sexually explicit material. They could also easily just declare that fanfiction in general is against TOS.

It was aimed explictly against fanart depicting underage characters, which is not the same as HP slash. It seems to me, though, that they're trying (for whatever reason) not to make all fans interested in sexual material leave, otherwise they would make much harsher policies. So it seems to me that they don't think that it would be a winning prospect for all fans to leave. I mean, so in my reading of the situation, I think from their perspective, if the people who are not posting explicit HP fanart featuring underage characters stay, they win.

(Pure speculation: Actually, my reading seems to be that LJ people think the laws are BS, but they need to cover their ass and their lawyers told them things, so they are more interested in policies they can point to and say 'see, we are following the law' rather than actually trying to get rid of fandom. There is a group of people they're really gunning for, but they're not fans.)

BTW, isn't Australian law much harsher than U.S. law when it comes to this?