LJ on a rampage

[likesgadgets]

Well, this is disturbing. LJ has taken upon itself the role of content policeman, removing offensive search terms from search databases and otherwise protecting us from all that is unseemly on the Internet

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[logicaltrader]

Hmmm...put this website in the hands of a company located in a country run by Vladimir Putin, and what happens? Content police? Well, at least we are not singing "evil lyrics" or not bowing to the insanity of the "junk science"-based crisis known as "global warming". The Gores would be all over us. Or what if we thought there was a little too much emphasis on the war on terror? Would "W" start to screen these posts?

What does carbon dioxide have to do with "peace" anyway? That question must be discussed in another forum.

Let's see how long this post lasts in Russia. What if I discussed the merits of tourism in Chechnya? Well, that's right, Putin has "blown up" his opposition (including elected officials) there and placed his boys of the United Russia party back into power in that bastion of new capital investment. I am sure there will be more explosive developments coming from Grozny sooner or later.

Perhaps we should all just opt out and find our own new blog. Funny, I just joined this thing a couple of weeks ago.
Oh, well, I guess I am just behind the curve again.

[logicaltrader]

Is Wordpress the place to go? I may keep a blog running for a little while, so if that is preferable to this place, why not? I never realized that LJ was selling out. Any comments for this nubile blogger?

[likesgadgets]

Well, I was thinking WordPress because I run my own domain and can install it on my web host and have complete control over it. WordPress also has a free blog site, but I haven't investigated it or compared it to other free blog sites. All I know is I'm becoming increasingly disenchanted with LJ, although I struggle with the mechanism to retain my LJ friends. :-)