SixApart has begun to restore the journals of recently suspended LiveJournal users and communities, to the relief of many fans whose online personas were vilified by a witchhunt earlier this week under the guise of "protecting the children."  Barak Berkowitz, CEO SixApart, announced the following earlier today:

The class of suspensions that are being reversed are;

1. All Fandom journals
2. All fiction journals.
3. All journals who that had problems in their profile only.

Later, he posted to inform the LiveJournal community that the quick reversals had been completed:

First, all journals and communities that were suspended that did not clearly violate community policies have been restored. Over the weekend and into the next couple of weeks we will be doing the following:

1. We will contact each user whose journal was both suspended and then restored to explain how they were swept up in this and to work with them to avoid further difficulties.  We expect that effort to start Monday and take several days.
2. We will be compiling and reviewing the input we have received as comments, voicemails and faxes, that made suggestions about how we could improve our policies and procedures.
3. Using this input as well as input from outside groups, such as the EFF, we will review and possibly redefine some of our policies.
4.
Then we will review the procedures we use to implement our policies and the standard communications we use in the implementation of those policies.
5. We will also review all of our abuse procedures and standard communications to users to see if we can do a better job in dealing with abuse issues.

For many fans, this would seem like the end of it.  However, before we sing one last "Kumbaya" and go back to the "slash vs. het vs. gen vs. RPF vs. puppies" debate, there's another piece to this puzzle that has recently come to light.  SixApart wants to go public.  Short form: the folks who own SixApart (and Vox and TypePad and lots of other services that help shape the online community) would like to sell stock publically and make a gob of money.  (see Opening Day, Google stock)  With that thought in the background, the sudden crackdown on wacky, borderline and/or weird interests makes far more sense.  No one wants to give money to people who provide an internet playground to child molestors, right?  For more information, please visit this link.  (Note: The link leads to a journal entry written by someone not affiliated with Firefox News.  As of this writing, the contents of the entry are hearsay and conjecture until and unless proper sources come forward.  We are providing the link as a point of interest to fellow fans who would like to know potential background information behind the events of Strikethrough 2007.)