LiveJournal is now a Russian-owned company and has been for a while. Recently a new "user agreement" has been put into place, subjecting LJ users to onerously vile Russian laws in some circumstances. This post sums it up rather well ( Read more... )

One of the responses to the publication and dissemination of the Danish newspaper's cartoons (and a few fakes, one of a modified photograph of a French Pig-Squealing Championship contestant) the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri is holding a contest for cartoons about the Holocaust. You can probably imagine the results already. The idea to claim that ( Read more... )