Peter ([info]hethatishere) wrote,
2007-12-03 07:55:00
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LiveJournal Sold!

Stolen from [info]iscari0t's journal:
Six Apart has sold Livejournal to Russian company SUP. After minor google work on the company (and having found at least one personal data scandal), I have turned off automatic payments until further notice. WTF. Also, read this article. I'm considering archiving my entire lj, porting it out, and deleting it. What the hell. =(
I honestly think I am with him as I believe this may well be the death of LiveJournal. The current government and culture of Russia has little interest in protecting free speech and increasingly is slipping back into being a destructive, oppressive totalitarian regime at odds with the West and with aspirations to once more become a world-power. Beyond that, Russia is a country that has shown little regard towards International law or the laws in areas where they do business. LiveJournal will be owned by the Russian Oligarchy with close ties to the Kremlin. Politics aside this is just plain bad, bad, bad. It surprises me that people raised such a hooplah about the sale to Six Apart, and yet there has been no backlash on something that not only threatens LiveJournal but us all as individual members. Anyone else thinking of jumping ship?
Tags: livejournal, russia

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[info]siegeengine

December 3 2007, 13:03:45 UTC 4 years ago

omg. that is incredible.

I'm stunned. :((((((

[info]iwant2believe2

December 3 2007, 14:19:27 UTC 4 years ago

this is all very interesting/alarming but i'm absolutely uncertain if I'm going to jump ship - i've been good with not including any personal information but also 1 i adore livejournal and 2 it has entries that i love reading of what i've done over the past couple of years. grr i hate these types of decisions.

but thanks for putting this on your entry - what do you think you're going to do?

p.s. i never got to ask you what you thought of the children in need special with the 5th doctor and the 10th together?!

[info]brigid

December 3 2007, 14:24:28 UTC 4 years ago

i am though i am not sure where to go...or how to back up my journal

[info]driftingfocus

December 3 2007, 14:50:41 UTC 4 years ago

I find this deeply concerning.

[info]driftingfocus

December 3 2007, 15:00:25 UTC 4 years ago

OH! I forgot to tell you! Adult Swim is now playing Dark Place on Friday nights!

[info]ron_newman

December 3 2007, 15:17:23 UTC 4 years ago

It's too early to say "no backlash"; the announcement is not even 12 hours old yet

[info]greensword

December 3 2007, 17:08:29 UTC 4 years ago

do you know of a good archive program for macs?

[info]arturus

December 3 2007, 19:19:04 UTC 4 years ago

I don't think panic is warranted, at this juncture. Livejournal will continue to be run out of san francisco, and as long as this is true, I don't see the servers all being moved to russia, or lj being put under russian jurisdiction.

It's not a super move, but it's not the end of the world. Wait and see.

[info]hethatishere

December 4 2007, 12:52:11 UTC 4 years ago

I think it is totally warranted. Because both companies are deliberately keeping us in the dark.

How long will the servers be kept in the US? Which country will handle billing? (That makes me the most nervous) How will the right to free speech in both countries be handled?

And on a purely philosophical and political level I and much of rest of the world have an increasingly negative view towards Russia - for very good reason: It is rapidly slipping back into totalitarianism.

What would that mean for LiveJournal?

[info]tygrrlyli

December 3 2007, 19:22:15 UTC 4 years ago

I already have back up journals. So I suppose I already have one foot off the ship and am ready to hit the ground running

[info]minkrose

December 3 2007, 20:39:25 UTC 4 years ago

I really don't see a present need for concern - what private information could I possibly have in my journal that would cause me any sort of trouble, aside from personal?

That, and I've got a permanent account - I really can't leave, and I'd be terribly sad to see other people go because I couldn't join them. I'd have to use LJ for another 3 years to make the permanent account worth it.

Regardless, they don't have any of my important information on file. I'm just not worried. What on EARTH could they do to me? Aside from deleting my journal with no way for me to retrieve it, and even that isn't the end of the world.

[info]ashi_moto

December 4 2007, 05:59:27 UTC 4 years ago

Are these the Albanian-speaking Russians?

[info]smashthemachine

December 4 2007, 16:30:23 UTC 4 years ago

The thought of backing up my entire journal is daunting, and then what would I do to procrastinate? Check facebook? I don't think so... :

[info]contamity

December 4 2007, 22:04:25 UTC 4 years ago

How should one go about backing up their LiveJournal? On a PC? On a Mac?

Thanks for the articles!

[info]elements

December 5 2007, 07:16:40 UTC 4 years ago

I'm considering it.
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