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

[xtrek.livejournal.com]

I do have my doubts about SUP too. I really hope that they're only based on prejudices. Censorship and more control over the users' entries will make me leave lj. I don't want to support such actions by paying for my account. But maybe I should calm down a little, the whole thing has had me ranting on my lj enough already.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I think that nobody except for people living in Europe, in countries that were deeply affected by Russia can understand our fears :( I hope that it'll turn out to be okay in the end, though *crosses fingers*