Live Journal does a u-turn on online book burning

ONLINE BOGGING site Live Journal has admitted it cocked up when it deleted 500 sex-themed discussions in a bid to purge the site of paedophiles.

Roleplaying sites, literary criticism and sites belonging to victims of sexual abuse all went on an virtual bonfire in the name of making the site safe for children.

Writing in his own bog Barak Berkowitz, chairman and chief executive of LiveJournal admitted that the outfit had "really screwed this one up" and promised to reinstate a wide swath of communities that were deleted.

A day before he was talking about improving standards at the site based on what it deemed appropriate.

LiveJournal has said it was responding to complaints from a group called Warriors for Innocence. However Warriors for Innocence admitted that many of the sites that were purged had nothing to do with what it requested.

The Warriors for Innocence spokesperson describes herself as an ardent conservative who views homosexuality as "sick" and a "twisted agenda" and lumps gays and lesbians into the same category as paedophiles and rapists, so we can see how Live Journal got confused.