In the post before this, I think I put up a link to a post keeping track of what's going on. ON there are further links, including a few responses from LJ/Six Apart as to why they're just deleting.

What it boils down to is 'someone complained, and rather than make a big stink, we just deleted the indicated journals'. Basically, they're afraid of legal action being brought down on them by way of 'guilt by association' and being permissive, blahblahblah and so forth. They of course go on in the repsonses to tell folks how to retrieve posts and info from the 'permanently suspended' accounts, but tey're really not interested in taking more responsibility than that for anything.