In case you were wondering what was happening to LJ...

[pip25]

atiko  posted some enlightening links:

http://varymydays.tumblr.com/post/8143622925/livejournal-ddos-attacks
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2063952,00.html

We often hear people talking about the freedom of expression and how it is limited in certain countries. Since we do not live in said countries, we might think that we have next to no

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[dqbunny]

I never supported the sale of the company to begin with. While I am all for freedom of speech, being a member of the press and all, I never supported the sale of LiveJournal to a Russian company. I have no stake in their election, nor do I want one. It's not like I purposefully joined this site knowing that if I did so I could risk losing personal data, etc. in it because of another country's political woes. I joined LJ nine years ago when it was still being run out of California and was dragged along as collateral because the company chose to sell itself not once, but twice

[pip25]

The two things should not be mixed. The fact that LJ has a Russian ownership is not explicitly related to the matter at hand. What is related is the fact that LJ has a significant Russian membership which made it a target. You can say that this should not affect you, but LJ is just as much of a global company as Dreamwidth. If, let's say, LJ goes bankrupt, and all the people on it follow your example, then Dreamwidth can easily be the next target. Will you move to a new provider again, then? I don't think it is a good long-term strategy to give these criminals what they want, which right now is none other than disrupting LJ membership.
Local divisions can be misleading. Google, for instance, has a Hungarian version, but its data is still stored in the same huge cluster. Short of dividing LJ to two completely different sites with different backends (which would be a little extreme), such separation would not be of much help.
(On a side note, DDOS attacks pose no threat to your data. They "only" make the site in question inaccessible.)

[ichiban_victory]

All things considered, the outage wasn't for an incredible length of time in the first place. Yes, I was inconvenienced, but it's not the end of the world. I'm more than willing to afford my fellow human the freedom of speech I so enjoy.