Warriors for Innocence

Warriors for Innocence was an online based organization.
From a 2007 stated goal: "Welcome to Warriors For Innocence, a site dedicated to hunting pedophiles where they fester. This is NOT an outlet for pedophiles to spew their pathetic attempts at justifying their sickness.". 
An early link to their webpage is stored at Warriors for Innocence (Internet Archive edition).
From their website, Warriorsforinnocence.org (hosted by Blogger.com) targeted online pedophile/sexual abuse related journals and then informed the hosts of those journals, especially Livejournal's Abuse Team and Livejournal's parent company SixApart, of content which they claim breaches ToS agreements. They also took steps to inform advertisers of those blog sites of the content of some of the blogs, which they claimed led to said advertisers pulling their advertising from the Livejournal site. LiveJournal and Six Apart: It’s time to do the right thing, Open Letter to Six Apart, the owners of LiveJournal 
==2007: The Group's Role in the Strikethrough Scandal==
"Warriors for Innocence" was reportedly behind the complaints to Six Apart that led to Strikethrough in 2007.
In 2007, a fan wrote about "Warriors for Innocence" as a "Hammer of God" and its utilization by fans both for purity control and Strikethrough. From "Will You Rat Me Out If You Don't Like What I Write?":
Also from "Will You Rat Me Out If You Don't Like What I Write?": 
From "Purity Police Redux: Next, They Came for the Advertisers":A reference to theologian Martin Niemöller's "First, they came" quote about non-involvement, which ends "and then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me." 
According to Livejournal user stewardess, SixApart had already been planning a "cleanup" of pedophile/sexual abuse and other such content for some time, with an eye to going public. They had left Warriors for Innocence's threats to be dealt with by the Livejournal Abuse Team. When Warriors for Innocence contacted SixApart management with a long list of users and communities, threatening to send copies to potential advertisers, SixApart immediately started a massive "cleanup". Along with deleting fanfiction communities featuring works on these subjects, some legitimate discussion groups on child sexual abuse, rape survivorship and other related subjects were also deleted, although later restored.
==2015: Resurgence and Purity Control==
A self-admitted former "Warriors for Innocence" supporter created a Tumblr page to hunt down people who support "homosexuality, pedophilia and incest". The fandom wank is ongoing and has attracted many fans, some who took it seriously, and some who found it humorous. 
This wank has been compared to Msscribe and her sockpuppets, specifically Fermatojam's Big Name Sinners.
In 2016, tumblr user wrangletangle argued that the "Warriors of Innocence" post was the origin of purity wank. See i didn't realise ao3 was started in response to lj deleting account relating to pedophilia and they explicitly support the posting of such works yikes.
The original "Warriors of Innocence" post has since been deleted, but lives on in reblogs. As of 1 May 2020, the post had 842 notes: 
Here is the original post:
 
==Further Reading==
* (May 29, 2007, 509 comments), post by liz marcs (continued from the following posts: (May, 30, 2007, 244 comments), continued in the following posts: and (May 30, 2007, 155 comments) 
* , May 30, 2007
* , May 30th, 2007 
* "Permanent Suspensions", or Strikethrough2007 (May 2007, journal deleted)
* In the Aftermath of Strikethrough'07; archive link page 1; archive link page 2; archive link page 3, discussion at Fanficrants (May 2007)
* , June 2007
==References==
Category:Christianity & Fandom