Live Journal makes war on evil breastfeeders

Live Journal makes war on evil breastfeeders



Six Apart, creators of Movable Type and, more recently, owners of LiveJournal, have decided to harrass LiveJournal users whose default icons depict breastfeeding. LJ user (and mother) bohemiancoast has more details:

So, LJ has decided to be hardline on the breastfeeding photos. Think I'm joking? Here's an example. They've sent a notice of suspension to a user using this painting as a default icon:





it's the BVM breastfeeding, natch

Hat tip to Patrick at Making Light. Go, read, click! (lots of live links at the original)

As a former evil breastfeeder (of two) and daughter of another evil breastfeeder (of nine), this really chaps me. This is the twenty-first century, for Godssake!

Boycott on 6/6/6 and follow through, please.

posted by puddle at 6/01/2006 10:53:00 AM 4 comments

This was posted last week at my blog, PYZCH which has gotten a fair amount of traffic from google, some international, and some from news outlets, on the subject. Six apart owns Moveable Type, Typepad, and Live Journal. I'm boycotting all these today. If you feel moved, let them know that you are: contact@sixapart.com.

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