In February 2009, the Livejournal community scans_daily was suspended for copyright violation. Since the community was primarily frequented by women, a minority in Comic Book Fandom, the suspension of the community disproportionately affected women in the fandom.

What happened Edit

• Announcement of suspension from the community's owner

Commentary/opinion/responses Edit

• Just past the horizon: the male space is just better hidden

That said, I do think that if Scans_Daily were a male dominated community it would have not been suspended like this. Why? Because I don’t think it would have been on a site like Livejournal. In my experience, that’s where the male-female distinction seems to be. Female fans populate social network sites run by panicky male-dominated corporations who want to make money from selling advertising to women, but don’t really have the brass ovaries to deal with hosting female interaction on the internet.

• Scans_Daily TOSed off Livejournal: If Only Someone Owned The Goddamned Servers (posted to the news blog for the Organization for Transformative Works)