This is what I read on Tumblr
At the beginning of this year the Russian government insisted that Livejournal (owned by a Russian company but located in California for many years now) move its servers to Russia, where they would have to abide by Russian law. Livejournal has been extremely popular with political dissidents in Russia, so the motivations behind this move should be
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To quote some of my friends, (even though I plan on staying on LJ until they delete my journal for being so gay - LJ will no longer make any money from me)
“Basically, I've ignored the moral/ethical issue of primarily using LJ just about as long as I can. Honestly, the Russian government is anti-gay. What I write is mostly gay.
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However, um, have we forgotten the Russians are the bad guys in this story? They may not be oppressing us personally, but they sure as shit aren't kind to the LGBT community at home and that doesn't even touch on the political crap like meddling in elections whether in the US or Europe.
Why should I give the Russians money when I should be supporting our kind of people?
And DW is basically run BY fan people FOR fan people like AO3 is.”
I understand a lot of the oldies have seen this and seen it all blow over, but it's more than just "them commies" for me now. I cannot in good conscience be part of a business that kill people like me. I'm marrying a woman - that's still punishable by death in some parts of the world.
Yes, it’ll blow all over and we’ll all forget about how there is a huge population of this world that lives in fear and does not have the same rights. EVERY DAY. And those that own LJ are now part of it.
It only looks like everyone is panicking not just b/c there's a chance of us actually getting deleting off this and I'll lose all my stories and art, but also because there are new members that don't know how to cross post or what's going on.
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