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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 10:17 am (UTC)And idk, maybe I'm leaning the other way and being a bit too naive about this, but I still don't see anything there that really worries me? I think those terms are something that I'm sure that you'd find on most websites if you read the small print, people are just reading more into it because of the Russian origins imo. I understand Russian users feeling paranoid if they want to use their LJ to criticise Putin, because I can definitely see that maybe creating problems for them sadly, but I doubt that they have any interest in targeting fandom journals.
I could be wrong about this, but I don't think that the US 'Freedom Of Speech' ever applied to a website either, you could just as easily be kicked off or suspended for abuse when the owners were American. ETA In fact 'strike-gate', which saw fannish N-17 content suspended without any warning or notice, I'm pretty sure that happened when the Americans were in charge
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Date: 2017-04-09 09:37 pm (UTC)Yep. Strikethrough of '07 was something that happened (which had a lot of other factors featured but it still occurred nonetheless), and while LJ did apologize and reinstated some journals/comms not everything was restored.
And in case you haven't seen, there are now online articles posting about this and adding more to the worry. I wonder what the outcome of that is going to be....