A few theories.

[spatch]

1. Warriors for Innocence is a very elaborate lj-dramaesque prank team and instead of collecting lists of who has a crush on whom this time around, this particular group of people found a way to start dropping the banhammer by spearheading a crusade to stamp out pedophiles (who could argue against that?) armed with only righteous indignation and a good sense of irony.

2. Warriors for Innocence is an actual group on a crusade to stamp out pedophiles (who could argue against that?) and they've got some nasty shit on someone at Six Apart or someone on Six Apart's legal counsel, which is why LJ caved faster than a Mexico City sinkhole on this one.

3. This along with CBS buying last.fm is, I believe, the Fifth and a Half Sign of the End Times.

4. POST 9/11 WORLD

5. This is stupid, you're stupid, I'm stupid, they're stupid, don't you see? Your stupid minds! Stupid, stupid!

6. I don't know. This is just depressing dumb.

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I think this was only in part a response to fear of WFI. I suspect that Barak B had probably wanted to purge pedophiles for a while but Brian kept telling him that this would be a bad idea. Barak wasn't convince, but the WFI episode and Brian going on holiday == excuse to do what he wanted to anyway, without a lot of arguments from the tech guy. Now I think he is starting to realize why this was a bad idea.
I say this because one of our Product Managers does shit like this all the time based on Sales team issues, right down to waiting for the senior concerned tech guy to go on holiday so he wouldn't have to argue with him. And then discovering that he's fucked things into a cocked hat, just like the senior tech guy told him he would.
In short, typical Management Suit behavior. BarakB is probably even sincere in his apology, and it might be 6 mos before his alpha maleness has him do something stupid again.
Though hopefully the next stupid thing he does will be at another company, because they should can his ass at this one.