These are the End Times, I fear.
Now would be a good time to back up your LJ and spruce up your fallback social blog account.
Russian social network CEO fired, opposition figure convicted
Russia's space for free speech suffered two further blows Tuesday when a Moscow court convicted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny of slander and a social network founder who provided a platform for dissent was fired and fled abroad....
VK's not LJ, but the writing does appear to be on the wall: Either LJ will resist when a similar request is made of them, and be shut down or taken over by the Russian government, or they will cave, and then what do you think of your privacy here?
Russian social network CEO fired, opposition figure convicted
Russia's space for free speech suffered two further blows Tuesday when a Moscow court convicted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny of slander and a social network founder who provided a platform for dissent was fired and fled abroad....
VK's not LJ, but the writing does appear to be on the wall: Either LJ will resist when a similar request is made of them, and be shut down or taken over by the Russian government, or they will cave, and then what do you think of your privacy here?