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LJ news

Control of LiveJournal as a blogging platform has been transferred to SUP Media LLC, a legal entity based in the Russian Federation. This decision stems from the urge to become closer to our users, most of whom live in Europe and Russia. Every LiveJournal user will be offered to sign the new User Agreement with SUP Media. Paid services, however, will still be provided by Live Journal Inc.

Despite the changes, LiveJournal remains an international blogging platform. Specifically, LiveJournal’s policy on user privacy and data security has undergone no major changes.

I know that a lot of people have been freaking out about this, but at the moment I'm not particularly worried, it seems similar to the user terms that most social media websites have? LJ just didn't handle it brilliantly by forcing everyone to sign the agreement in the way they did, but ultimately I feel like my content is still safer here than it is on somewhere like Facebook. Heck for all the 'but Russia' protests, I would imagine the recent change in US law (allowing your ISPs to sell your entire internet history) is going to have a much bigger affect on American posters then anything that LJ may or may not be doing...

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[batmarg.livejournal.com]

I'm not willing to think that a sketchy russian company could have no effect on my lj, but I agree: way less effect than fb, which is literally using facial recognition software to help you speedy tag your pics.

I only get so detailed on here, so I'm staying, at least for the time being.

Edit: sorry, this was supposed to be a reply not a comment. Oh well.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

What I've been lead to understand these past few days is that it wasn't actually the choice of the LJ owners to move servers, that they were strong-armed by the Russian Federation, and that's basically because of concerns over what the Russian users are saying now that the elections are coming up. So I've seen a lot of people on ONTD for example (a VERY active comm which would definitely on LJ's radar) wondering why they are still allowed to post LGBT content and political commentary without issue, and my interpretation of it all is that LJ themselves have zero interest in driving away their international userbase and censoring us. And I doubt the Russian Government cares very much either about what people from other countries want to use their LJ for, I think it's purely about watching the political commentary that comes from Russian users, anything else really doesn't have much relevance to them