Basically, somebody tried to harass Dreamwidth into giving into their demands by telling everybody associated with them that they were involved in Things That Were Illegal/Adult. Which is why Dreamwidth no longer uses Paypal. And in fact, they had to end up going to a few payment processors and pay through the nose because of the fact that Dreamwidth was labeled as "adult".
And of course! People don't want to hear bad things about themselves/what they've done, so they try to squelch it.
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I also found http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/16338.html to have some notes. I know there are others, but I haven't found them yet.
Basically, somebody tried to harass Dreamwidth into giving into their demands by telling everybody associated with them that they were involved in Things That Were Illegal/Adult. Which is why Dreamwidth no longer uses Paypal. And in fact, they had to end up going to a few payment processors and pay through the nose because of the fact that Dreamwidth was labeled as "adult".
And of course! People don't want to hear bad things about themselves/what they've done, so they try to squelch it.