I will not repeat the news, as I am sure everybody already knows it. I want to say, however, that in Russian segment of LJ (which is second biggest after English) there is a strong opinion that the deal was planned to come through exactly after the parliamentary elections in Russia, so all the Russian blogosphere would discuss the fact of sale of
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First, I want to describe a little fact the people around here who don't know Russian may not be aware of: trolls are more willing to explain their opinion than the most of the users. This is, regular users can just perceive all this situation in the way of "lolwut, SUP bought LJ? okay, this changes nothing" or similar, without expressing any feedback and furthermore going to no_lj_ads to make you aware of their feelings. This is natural, you know.
Also, it is natural that some users who decide to provide some feedback do not go to this community to express it, heh. And of course, nobody's going to advocate SUP here, because every particular user can decide it's not his/her problem, and they have a lot of more interesting things to do except feeding trolls.
I have some more offending things to say re: the people who chose to fight with SUP, and if you didn't read the first paragraph of this comment, please do it carefully, because it's most likely against the official position of the company I work for. As you all are no doubt aware, the most of the users who made such a choose do not live in Russia. In my honest opinion they left their homeland because they think it's a bad, non-democratic, country which should be democratized in the same way Iraq was or just hated, I dunno.
Of course, the previous sentence does not relate to all the people who decided to leave Russia, but it is a fact that some emigrants do hate their historical homeland, for the reasons I don't want to be aware of. This makes me feel a bit upset and I consider it's a shame that I've born in the same country with these particular people.
And then suddenly these people discover that a company from Russia starts to have business with LiveJournal, and does it quite successfully. Of course they are full of concerns, and they start whining loudly, they even write to the BBB to say "we hate this f***ing company," and they make everything to express what they think in this community and similar ones. This always made me a bit "uh, wut?" because this position has almost no reasoning. It's impossible to tell that SUP didn't make any mistakes, they are humans, and they did, as did Six Apart (the latter is why this community was created), and it is perfectly okay that people are complaining about these (I don't remember anything serious except that account breakin, though).
But the most of people started to complain about some nonsense things, like:
* There's a Jewish manager in SUP nicknamed dolboeb (I don't know English this well, but it should translate to 'dickhead' or something similar).
* Russian company = KGB, and Russian law is bad whatsoever, so keep me out of Russian jurisdiction.
* Er, I'm unwilling in remembering the rest, would you really like to hear it all?
And now SUP buys LiveJournal, and almost all the information the English-speaking users have about it is the whining courteously provided by our beloved trolls (mostly, heh). I agree that this is a lack of clarification from SUP's side, and SUP is not perfectly innocent about this, but.. haha, explanations above.
Being that said, I believe I do not need to say what I think about this re: legislative election concern. About privacy, the fact that SUP owns LiveJournal, Inc. doesn't mean that SUP owns LiveJournal's servers and the content of the entries, and violating the US Federal law will put LiveJournal, Inc. in a risk to be charged for it regardless whether it's the FSS who required to do so or anybody else.
Reminder: this is my personal opinion, and it can differ drastically from the the SUP's official position.
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By way of analogy: I am an American citizen, living in America. I have been unhappy with many of LJ's recent actions, prior to the purchase of LJ by SUP. I have complained about these actions on news along with many other English-speaking users who feel the same way as I do. We complain because we feel we have legitimate grievances about LJ's treatment of its users. We are not "trolls" for the most part.
Why should I take your word for it that the Russians who complain about SUP do not have legitimate complaint, just as the Americans/U.K./Canadians who have complained had legitimate complaints about LJ when it was with Six Apart?
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Fear that their journals might be flagged by others cause them to go ahead and do it, themselves.
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My LJ cursing is a mere fraction of my real-life cursing, and there are way more salacious images of me over on FB, so I wasn't thinking "shit, fuck, here's a picture of me topless" when I slapped that label on my own LJ. Of course, two weeks ago, I didn't *have* to make that choice ... but that's the choice I'd have made then, and the choice I chose to make now. Or, well, a couple of days ago.
But honestly, mostly I did it so I didn't have to keep seeing that stupid "may contain" warning, and so I wouldn't inflict that on others. Because I am a LAZY adult, you see.
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I also want to point out that as long as the content isn't illegal under US law, the worst that can happen is that users under 18 won't be able to view that content (and that only happens in the case of "explicit" adult content, such as pornography). And again, nothing happens at all until the Abuse Prevention Team reviews it and makes a decision.
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This is the definition of explicit adult content that was posted in lj_biz:
"Content that is graphic and explicit (depicting nudity, sexuality, or violence) that is appropriate only for adults and is not suitable for anyone under the age of 18. This label does not imply that the content is considered obscene, just that it is not appropriate for minors."
Given that definition, I don't think text-only pornography can be excluded. If it's something that describes sex in very graphic and explicit ways, then it may be considered explicit adult content. I know some people give movie-style rating to their writings (like PG-13, R, NC-17), and I think it's safe to assume that if you would rate your own content as NC-17, it's probably explicit adult content. Though of course, it totally depends on the specific case, as there's always going to cases that are right on the line.
Please keep in mind that anything I say here should not be taken as policy--I'm just an engineer. It's just my personal interpretation of things, and it may be totally wrong. :)
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I have labeled my journal as containing adult explicit content - no matter how explicit or non-explicit its content actually is - because I don't want kids whining about reading/seeing stuff there were not supposed to see. It won't stop me from saying/showing whatever I want to show/say so I'm not self-censuring myself in any way. This hasn't limited my freedom of speech. Has it limited yours?
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