A note to English-speaking readers
It had been brought to my attention, that some of my comments, carried on Tuesday by a Russian online daily called Izbrannoe, drew immense criticisms from many American LJ readers and users, who were never given a chance to read them in the first place. Some were basing their impressions on a machine translation, and others, even worse, on a
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well, well, well... it's on the record. He was not calling names to the effect that "bad_girls_do_it is an idiot" and "v888 is another idiot".. He way saying that those people who oppose whatever administrative decisions oppose them for "idiotic" reasons. Idiotic reasons are those concerns that are out of sync with the sup’s corporate wisdom - privacy of information and freedom of speech. It is "idiotic" to believe that public concerns account for much when it comes to making a corporate decision which always derives from a cost-benefit analysis. LiveJournal is his business, you know. And in the final analysis, it is up to him and his corporate cronies to decide what is good for the community. Good for the community is what’s expedient investment-wise. Nossik went further than this. He claimed (he intuited) that this vision is shared by all bloggers - except, perhaps, for a dozen of nut-cases who can be easily ignored. The poll taken revealed that the idiots are in the overwhelming majority.
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