Livejournal Servers Now Located in Russia

[eveofrevolution]

As of a few days ago, the IP addresses for blogging service LiveJournal have moved to 81.19.74.*, a block that lookup services locate in Moscow, Russia. Now users -- especially those who do not trust the Russian government -- are leaving the platform and advising others to leave

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[moonshaz]

Servers are now in Russia, which means that Livejournal is now under Russia's legal jurisdiction. This means that LJ may be influenced by the Russian government to delete content (such as the pro-Ukrainian posts that are rumored to have been deleted).

This is very disturbing to me, especially for a group like this, where we discuss current events constantly, including those in other countries. I wonder if they're likely to go after content posted in English and other non-Cyrillic languages, or just stick to the Russian stuff.

Just thinking out loud, but the idea of stuff getting deleted really jumped out at me.

[cepreuka]

Because Russia can.

[2_on]

Watching the mass exodus to dreamwidth has been unreal. The other day almost all of the pages on the LJ front page were people talking about shutting down and moving to dreamwidth. I wonder how this will affect the future of US Livejournal.

[ladypolitik]

I mean, save for ontd, Livejournal was already going the way of MySpace.

(...I legit needed a 30 second google search to remember the name of MySpace.)

[lollycunt]

Livejournal is still a .com so it is under US jurisdiction

[tilmon]

The problem is that, with LJ servers in Moscow and the Russian government enforcing a right to review any post on servers located with Russia, Cyrillic users no longer have anonymity. They have been the lion's share of LJ users for years now, using LJ specifically because it offered protection. That protection is gone, and so they are going. If they leave, as they seem to be doing by the thousands, LJ won't be financially stable. It's not whether those of us outside Russia feel safe. It's whether Russians feel safe, and they obviously don't.

[jeliza]

Ok, the thought of LJ being financially unstable will actually motivate me to at least back up my account to dreamwidth, because I've got 15 years of journal on here I don't want to lose easy access/links to.