Well, on the one hand I understand that LJ reacts by just tossing potentially problematic content to avoid liability, rather than to try and fight to the bitter end for any content like they were some electronic freedom organization rather than a business, and I can ceratinly see why LJ wouldn't want to be the ones responsible sorting out in some court whether it's okay to host communities with discussion how hot Draco being raped by Lucius is or whether that is equivalent to facilitating pedophilia after all or whatever.

I don't really expect them to be on the "cutting edge" of electronic rights. And I get that these TOS usually always have some loophole for them to end your account just because they want to anyway. But OTOH I'd find it really annoying should they permanently suspend LJs that don't even have any TOS violating content, or even content that is in some gray area where it is unclear whether it is problematic, but just a "illegal" interest, yet are in fact book discussion groups or RPG villains. Obviously expressing an "interest" alone isn't illegal, and if the networking and search possibility being utilized for illegal activities causes this much headaches for their legal department (and I am no lawyer so I have no clue how that really works, but that seems to be what the response emails from LJ are implying) they may be better off just to disable the interest search altogether, and go back to just suspending for actual content someone reports, IMO. Otherwise they may as well end up with people randomly reporting LJs that list drugs or prostitution because there are also comms doing illegal things and listing those interests.