This post is for the people who are involved in 
worldaffairs or intl_relations.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I think we should friends-lock these two communities as well as all the character ljs. I've been reading in therp_discuss community, and there have been a couple of posts about the LJ Administrators deleting, without any advance warning, character ljs in a celebrity roleplaying community. Apparently "impersonation" of actual people is a violation of LJ's Terms of Service, and having disclaimers on the community or individual ljs is no protection or defense. (Neither is being unaware of what the TOS says.)
Granted, most of our characters are foreign leaders and so not likely to raise red flags with anyone, but George is a different story. And we've already seen what happened to
speaker_pelosi. Once an lj is gone, there's no getting the posts or comments back; it would make me sick to see to see all of 
dominiquelechic's or vlad_impaler's work lost.
Let's talk about this, either here or outside LJ.
worldaffairs or intl_relations.Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I think we should friends-lock these two communities as well as all the character ljs. I've been reading in the
rp_discuss community, and there have been a couple of posts about the LJ Administrators deleting, without any advance warning, character ljs in a celebrity roleplaying community. Apparently "impersonation" of actual people is a violation of LJ's Terms of Service, and having disclaimers on the community or individual ljs is no protection or defense. (Neither is being unaware of what the TOS says.) Granted, most of our characters are foreign leaders and so not likely to raise red flags with anyone, but George is a different story. And we've already seen what happened to
speaker_pelosi. Once an lj is gone, there's no getting the posts or comments back; it would make me sick to see to see all of dominiquelechic's or vlad_impaler's work lost. Let's talk about this, either here or outside LJ.
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Now, before we get all worried about that, there is a difference, a legal difference, between 'role playing' and 'impersonation'. We are, technically, 'impersonating' real life personae, in the sense that we are 'pretending to be' those people. We are not, however, 'impersonating' in the legal sense and in the sense that the above clause XVI.3 intends, which is 'to assume (another's or a fictitious identity) without authority and with fraudulent intent'. We are not out to defraud anyone, we would not claim to people that we are who we are pretending to be. The disclaimers on all our LJs specifically state that. Therefore, and no it doesn't matter what happened to Pelosi, we are not violating said clause. I can't find the post where Pelosi's player was desperately trying not to get kicked off, but if I recall, she didn't mention that it was because of her 'impersonation', but because of an external complaint that was lodged. LJ claims not to monitor posting, but to respond to complaints - therefore, we would, legally, be able to keep WA and all political RPG journals going if we lock them. That's all. We don't allow anyone to see them except those people who we screen ourselves, and we don't advertise. News will have to get around by word of mouth, but that's basically what one has to rely on if a community isn't spotlighted anyway.
Tell me if there are any flaws in my argument...
I'm still hoping to hear what Tavi thinks about all this.