In fact 'strike-gate', which saw fannish N-17 content suspended without any warning or notice, I'm pretty sure that happened when the Americans were in charge

Yep. Strikethrough of '07 was something that happened (which had a lot of other factors featured but it still occurred nonetheless), and while LJ did apologize and reinstated some journals/comms not everything was restored.

And in case you haven't seen, there are now online articles posting about this and adding more to the worry. I wonder what the outcome of that is going to be....