Um.

[emmagrant01]

Wait, what? The fuck?

I have no idea what to think. :-P

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[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yeah. I'm going to have to figure out how to do my layout over on IJ.

[freckles42.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I'm still reading through things.

But, I will say this: at least they didn't post it to lj_biz like they normally seem to do with this sort of thing. /cynical

Edit: Well, I need to look into SUP a bit, but right now, all I can think is that if Brad's coming back to some degree that it's gotta be better than the bullshit 6A's pulled on us. I'm getting a strong scent of "Cut our losses and run!" from 6A.

[zhonnika.livejournal.com]

I'm strongly optimistic, I mean that.

I've heard a lot of good things, and we'll have to see what happens. Either way, we're done with 6a. FINALLY.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a good point. I guess I'm worried because I've heard a lot of bad things about lack of media freedom in Russia. :-P

[freckles42.livejournal.com]

In Soviet Russia, Livejournal blogs YOU!

[zhonnika.livejournal.com]

Still US laws and such, we asked :D

[tonights.livejournal.com]

Dude...what?

[bribitribbit.livejournal.com]

What? Hmmmmm.

[ankhet.livejournal.com]

totally OT (and, in response to the post.. say what?), but what's your icon from?

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

It's A Little Princess! I LOVED THAT MOVIE.

/ridiculous excitement over someone else's icon

[xnymphadorax.livejournal.com]

Oh snap, you have an A Little Princess icon! Where'd ya get it, where'd ya get it?!

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

That was definitely my reaction. No clue how to feel about this just yet.

[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead or The Russians are Coming?

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

hmm. my main question is, where will the servers that host lj be located? isn't that the crux of the matter here?

[florahart]

The business week (or some such) story said SUP will have new offices in SF for non-Russian LJ... I guess that means here?

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[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

ah, okay. still, this is very curious and confusing....

[fourth_rose]

In the comments of the news post, a LJ employee said the'll stay in San Francisco - SUP has created something like an US sub-firm that runs them. They're also still functioning under Californian law.

[katieupsidedown.livejournal.com]

This is the eeeend, my only friiieeend the eeeend.

[sunsets-shadows.livejournal.com]

For a little while, after my dad dropped his pager in the toilet, it was usable but not for, you know, solid waste.

Your icon reminded me. Apologies for the lurkerlurkerlurkerGROSSlurkerness.

[sciencegeek.livejournal.com]

Gah. wtf.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, IME, non-American users regard American Dominionists the way gawkers do the freak show at a circus. So Warriors for Idiocy and their like will no longer command instant compliance from LiveJournal (hopefully).

And Brad will be on the advisory board.

On the other hand . . . I've been gleaning the comments, and one says that Russian LJ users are now in a panic (http://news.livejournal.com/104520.html?thread=65960008#t65960008). Slash may no longer be the Big Issue -- criticizing Putin may be.

Interesting Wired article. (http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2006/11/72060)

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Don't care about Putin, don't talk about him, so don't terribly care.

As long as he leaves my slashy goodness alone, I'm fine with it. Getting away from the American religious nutcases and the long leash they hold around LJ's neck... could definitely have its benefits.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

I really hate to give money to any company that's mixed up in government attempts to censor political discussion. OTOH, I will never be giving LJ another dime anyway, so I actually don't have to worry about that. I'll continue with an unpaid-account LJ, and focus on my InsaneJournal account (which I just bought).

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got a paid InsaneJournal account (the paid part was a very generous gift from a wonderful human being and magnificent fanfic author (*winks*)), and I suspect that fandom will continue its gradual migration over to IJ, with spurts driven by LJ's random acts of sheer stupidity. IJ might not be as shiny and established, but the owner seems like a really cool guy who really responds to his customers. I like them muchly.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

You are probably quite correct. Squeaky has gone out of his way to welcome us (and we have gone out of our way to tell him how much we appreciate it).

[belleweather.livejournal.com]

*hums the Soviet Anthem*

While it's refreshing from a writing-porn standpoint, I'm significantly more worried from a personal privacy standpoint than I was with 6_A. Also, with my personal feelings about the legal system and process in Putin's Russia, I'm not so sure about giving the new Russian Overlords money. Or even my CC#.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Heh, wanna know what I think?

http://mijan.livejournal.com/73626.html

*snicker*
;)

[photograficnerd.livejournal.com]

This just leaves me going O.o?

Why Russia of all places -- couldn't it be somewhere cool, like Canada? :P This whole thing is just confusing.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Heck, as a Canadian I'm glad it's not Canada - we have much stricter obscenity laws and different protections over "free speech." One of the reasons I couldn't get on board with the Scribblit LJ alternative last summer was because the servers would be hosted in Canada, which just wasn't legally viable for the kind of content the owner promised to protect.

[puppydifranco.livejournal.com]

yea, I got that email a few minutes ago.

I was kinda fascinated by the fact that LJ changed ownership 2 years ago, and I didn't even know about that... maybe this will be just as seamless.

who knows...I'm not freaking out or anything.. (yet)... I guess we shall have to just wait and see what happens.

[kupukello.livejournal.com]

The way I see it, Russians won't be interested at ALL what the content of LJ is as long as the money keeps flowing in. But this also means that any old "no ads for paid users" promises will also regarded as something that doesn't tie them down, nor is spamming or any other business use they might think of for using their database of email addresses.

Then there are the security issues: am I willing to let a Russian company know my credit card number? No way in hell! Even if the company itself had lofty ideas, their individual employees might not.

==> Less censorship for both the users AND the maintainers, less security.


Now I only need to figure out how to download my entire scrapbook, and then I will move myself out of here. Truth to be told, the 6A wank from last spring and summer was like entertainment, but this, THIS is actually dangerous, and not just on "freedom of speech" or moral levels.

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

//gets out Soviet Russia tshirt//

[quimtessence.livejournal.com]

Privacy in Russia? Not that there was oh so much of it running around anyway. Since my own country is right next door, I can't help wondering in a very amused tone whether LJ will next be bought by a company in Romania. Just for LOLs.

I'm going to go about my business the usual way, and when I begin receiving cease and desist e-mails I'll deal with it then.

[stitchesandlace.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this will actually change anything?

Last time I checked, Russians aren't exactly, er, progressive in their views concerning certain things... *cough*gayrights*cough* ... so is that going to come down on slashers? Hmmm.

See the attempted May 2006 Pride "Parade" in Moscow:

This past Saturday marked the 13th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia, and a number of people attempted to take part in a gay pride parade in Moscow - despite the ban by a city court and mayor Yuri Luzhkov's words from the day before: “As long as I am mayor, we will not permit these parades.”

Orthodox Christians, Russian ultra-nationalists and skinheads attacked a handful of gays who showed up by the Kremlin to put flowers to the Unknown Soldier Memorial. Riot police detained up to 120 people that day, among them journalists and human rights activists, mony of whom now intend to file a complaint to protest their unlawful detention and harsh treatment.

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... IJ's looking like an attractive option right about now.

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jesus fucking Christ. Who the hell cares? I'm sick of my flist acting like everything is a giant consipracy against them. Get a fucking life, people! Did you know I learned just today that there is an LJ comm devoted to reusable cloth menstrual pads? Did you know there is an LJ comm devoted to wank among the cloth diapering community? There's ALL KINDS of weird shit going on on LJ.

Sorry. Maybe this does actually Mean Something. But I doubt it.