Yeah. So, I guess I'm a little more used than you are to signing ToS based on the laws of a country other than the one I live in. Obviously Russia's a scary place with scary laws, but... just because my right to free speech has never been officially protected doesn't mean anyone's out to suppress it.
I think it would have been remarkably foolish for any Russian activist blogger to remain on livejournal once the servers moved to Russia, or indeed once the company moved into Russian hands. It's a dangerous thing to be open about in the first place, and I hope the political activists there would have the sense to do it in the safest ways possible rather than be caught by the trap you mention.
The remarks I made were made explicitly for the purpose you mention. I would never change the things I say or do on my journal. But there's a difference to me between having something as part of the ToS and actually acting on it. I don't see the blogs of anyone outside Russia as any real concern of the Russian Federation. Like, seriously, why would they care? Maybe they do. But if they want to read anything that I've written online they will anyway. If they want to stop me from writing it then fuck them, I'll find a new home, but for the moment the whole thing feels a bit cold war red-under-the-bed to me. It's abuse that bothers me, not the potential for it.
*shrug* I don't know. I might import my journal over to my DW account and do the whole crossposting thing, just in case it all goes south, but I've got a few communities that I really like over on LJ and a number of friends I've collected along the way and I'm already feeling a bit widely scattered in my social media, so... As I said, I don't know.
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I think it would have been remarkably foolish for any Russian activist blogger to remain on livejournal once the servers moved to Russia, or indeed once the company moved into Russian hands. It's a dangerous thing to be open about in the first place, and I hope the political activists there would have the sense to do it in the safest ways possible rather than be caught by the trap you mention.
The remarks I made were made explicitly for the purpose you mention. I would never change the things I say or do on my journal. But there's a difference to me between having something as part of the ToS and actually acting on it. I don't see the blogs of anyone outside Russia as any real concern of the Russian Federation. Like, seriously, why would they care? Maybe they do. But if they want to read anything that I've written online they will anyway. If they want to stop me from writing it then fuck them, I'll find a new home, but for the moment the whole thing feels a bit cold war red-under-the-bed to me. It's abuse that bothers me, not the potential for it.
*shrug* I don't know. I might import my journal over to my DW account and do the whole crossposting thing, just in case it all goes south, but I've got a few communities that I really like over on LJ and a number of friends I've collected along the way and I'm already feeling a bit widely scattered in my social media, so... As I said, I don't know.