social studies
LiveJournal is now owned by Russia. Has been for some time, as near as I can tell. The dread that sentence invokes speaks to our long history with each other. If you told me that a Swedish corporation had purchased LJ, I wouldn't notice. Under Russian rule, I fear squads showing up at my house, telling me that my precious posting was an afront to the Motherland. I feel tracking software and Communist worms, and see the walls of a totalitarian society rushing upon me like so many Cossacks.
This is all very nationist, but I can't help it. Our media has trained me to fear their overreaching hands. Their spies seem everywhere. They even won the Deadliest Warrior. Amazingly, putting myself out there was never so terrifying as the day the Russians owned my words. I never considered the horror.
Of course, these are things I never had to worry about under the American LJ. Now, they might even put me away in a...you know...like...
What's the Russian equivalent of Gitmo?
This is all very nationist, but I can't help it. Our media has trained me to fear their overreaching hands. Their spies seem everywhere. They even won the Deadliest Warrior. Amazingly, putting myself out there was never so terrifying as the day the Russians owned my words. I never considered the horror.
Of course, these are things I never had to worry about under the American LJ. Now, they might even put me away in a...you know...like...
What's the Russian equivalent of Gitmo?