Comments | likesgadgets: LJ on a rampage

likesgadgets

LJ on a rampage

Dec 16, 2007 13:44

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 ( Read more... )

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logicaltrader December 16 2007, 23:12:59 UTC

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 ( ... )

logicaltrader December 20 2007, 20:14:05 UTC

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 December 21 2007, 00:00:13 UTC

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. :-)

gregordv December 17 2007, 15:51:01 UTC

It's things like that that made me decide to self-host my blog. Before I headed out to Iraq, I looked at LJ and blogspot and the rest, and was uncomfortable with what the future might bring with someone else being the _sole_ gatekeeper to my data. I thought my Iraq blog would be an important part of my life that I wanted to look back on, and I wondered what would happen if LJ just closed its doors (it was much younger then) and took all the blogs with it. I felt much safer hosting it somewhere where I controlled the source code, could make regular backups, and could at a whim move it to another computer ( ... )