maybe it's time to shut this shit down
ngl Russia is a country I deepy dislike. Go read "Secondhand Time" by Svetlana Alexievich if you wanna learn more, she deservedly won a nobel prize in 2015.
anyhow, i found this earlier and yeah, dnw Russia to be MY overloards too. and since I possible will never be able to re-create the good times of LJ.... also i do wonder what the creators of LJ are thinking....
this is from somebody at DW who want to stay anon here on LJ
Briefly, SUP. the Russian group that owns LJ, has moved the physical servers that LJ information is on to Russia. Nobody who writes on LJ is now covered by the First Amendment, or any other US law governing freedom of expression. Your information -- all of it -- is under the direct supervision of the Russian government.
Info from Siderea here and here.
Why does this matter to us here?
Think about it. Putin hacked the elections; his interference contributed strongly to giving us Drumph. Now he's got access to private information on private citizens across the country, their interests, their views, their families. Do you really want that?
I closed my account last week; it seemed the time to do it. I suggest you do the same, delete your comments, delete everything. You are welcome to come to Dreamwidth, which is similar to work with, or to go to WordPress or any other journaling or blogging resource. Just don't stay where you are -- for all our sakes.
(Think of the kind of data scraping and analysis that happens on Facebook for the sake of ads. Now think of it in LJ, done by Russia for political means.)
ETA: You can import your LJ here if you want to keep the entries, and once they are here, delete it at LJ.
anyhow, i found this earlier and yeah, dnw Russia to be MY overloards too. and since I possible will never be able to re-create the good times of LJ.... also i do wonder what the creators of LJ are thinking....
this is from somebody at DW who want to stay anon here on LJ
Briefly, SUP. the Russian group that owns LJ, has moved the physical servers that LJ information is on to Russia. Nobody who writes on LJ is now covered by the First Amendment, or any other US law governing freedom of expression. Your information -- all of it -- is under the direct supervision of the Russian government.
Info from Siderea here and here.
Why does this matter to us here?
Think about it. Putin hacked the elections; his interference contributed strongly to giving us Drumph. Now he's got access to private information on private citizens across the country, their interests, their views, their families. Do you really want that?
I closed my account last week; it seemed the time to do it. I suggest you do the same, delete your comments, delete everything. You are welcome to come to Dreamwidth, which is similar to work with, or to go to WordPress or any other journaling or blogging resource. Just don't stay where you are -- for all our sakes.
(Think of the kind of data scraping and analysis that happens on Facebook for the sake of ads. Now think of it in LJ, done by Russia for political means.)
ETA: You can import your LJ here if you want to keep the entries, and once they are here, delete it at LJ.