PSA: davidkevin has crossed the line

[unixronin]

As reported by technoshaman and others, a nasty little troll named davidkevin has managed to get beckyzoole's journal suspended, supposedly for copyright violation.

The nature of her "copyright violation"?  She quoted trolling comments that he sought out HER community to post in, then later deleted, in her replies to those comments ... something that EVERYONE ON LIVEJOURNAL does.  If beckyzoole is a copyright violator, then EVERY LIVEJOURNAL USER WHO HAS EVER USED THE QUOTE FEATURE (or, of course, quoted from a post or comment by hand) is a copyright violator.  The very existence of the "Quote" button is incontrovertible evidence that LiveJournal intends and wants people to do this.

The truth of the matter, of course, is that beckyzoole is not in any way, shape or form a copyright violator, and davidkevin is a nasty, trolling little cyberstalker who is intentionally abusing LiveJournal's abuse procedure to harass her (among other people he stalks and harasses).

If you object to this kind of harassment and think this claim of "copyright violation" is as absurd as I do, please spread this news far and wide, and complain to LiveJournal about davidkevin's abusive behavior.  It's time he got a taste of his own medicine.  If anyone's journal should get suspended over this, it's his.

(Incidentally, you may also want to know that part of what he was trolling with this time was he claimed to have found a search engine that would allow him to read other users' friends-locked posts, but would not reveal what it was.  As evidence for his claim, he apparently posted an excerpt from a locked post by a user whom beckyzoole knows, and who is known to not have him friended.  LiveJournal denies that this is possible.)

(Yes, I did intentionally nudge my playlist by way of commentary.)

Comments

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is a way to view locked posts. There's a php script out there called ljimages.php (you can host it on any server running php), which will pick the 10 (or so) most recently posted images, and let you view them. It also makes the images links back to the original posts.

Of course, some of these images will be NWS. What is most surprising is that some of these images will lead back to locked posts.

I imagine there are a lot of users who rely on locked posts, and expect that a locked post means that no one else can see those links.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

There was also, of course, the big furor over Frienditto a while back.