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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...
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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Date: 2017-04-05 06:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
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I think that people are reading into a lot of it because it comes from Russia, stuff like
prohibiting “the dissemination of information for the purpose of discrediting a citizen or some categories of citizens on the basis of sex, age, race or ethnicity, language, religion, trade, place of residence and work and also in connection with their political convictions.” is all just standard legal agreements imo, but people are talking about how it means that 'LJ no longer pretends to adhere to the concept of Freedom of Speech and/or privacy as (still) practiced in the USA.' Umm they never did? Websites have always had the right to kick people off for abusing their terms of services. I've said it elsewhere, but strikegate happened under America's watch back in the day when they were worried about how their advertisers would be affected by underage fandom porn with Harry Potter etc. The Russian owners have never targeted fandom in that way, yet somehow everyone is now wishing for the American owners to return to LJ to protect fandom, and I don't really get why. I do appreciate why Russian users would be uneasy if they want to discuss politics, but I haven't seen anything yet to suggest that fandom (well what's left of it anyway) is no longer safe on LJ
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Date: 2017-04-05 02:22 pm (UTC)