About the whole Russian thing...

[katikat]

So, according to LJ news, Six Apart sold LiveJournal and LJ only, not Vox or whatever else they own, to SUP, a media company based in Moscow. Obviously they've been negotiating for almost a year now - explains all the witch hunts - and SUP now built a new company, LiveJournal Inc., based in San Francisco that will handle LJ only. They will still be subject to the US law but with control and orders coming from Russia...

Hm, will that be a good or a bad thing? Will these people take the time to handle complaints and abuse properly now that they can concentrate on LJ stuff only or will that mean more control, more censorship, more witch hunts? Who knows.

I have no idea what to think of it but since I live in a country that had been under occupation by the Russian forces for 20 years in the past, all Russian things make me very twitchy... Prejudice only? Maybe. At least I hope so.

Comments

[castalie.livejournal.com]

The negative reaction is pretty similar to the one we got to see when LJ was sold to 6A. Or when every big change happened. The difference being that we're now talking about a non-American company and from the sound of it, that's part of the reason why it's making people even more nervous. People who don't even have your background.

I think LJ can't win, anyway - whatever they'll do, they'll always piss people *shrug* Not talking about you, here, btw, your entry was nicely level-headed and calm.

Let's just hope for the best for LJ. I mean, see how many times people announced its death. And it's/we're still here *shrug*

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I hope that everything will turn out well. I mean, it's not bad that the company was sold so I see no point to bash them or whatever, I just hope that the result will be mostly positive *crosses fingers*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Bashing just on principle seems to be a hobby that many on LJ enjoys; I just dislike it. On principle, yes lol

One worry that was mentioned, and one that I can understand, is the question about the location of the servers; would the servers stay on US soil or leave for Russia... but from what I read and from what I was told, it'd seem likely that aforementioned servers would stay in California, so it's a good point, already...