LJ and evil laws of Russia

[vakkotaur]

LiveJournal is now a Russian-owned company and has been for a while. Recently a new "user agreement" has been put into place, subjecting LJ users to onerously vile Russian laws in some circumstances. This post sums it up rather well:

http://darkoshi.livejournal.com/693446.html

For the same reasons, I cannot see posting new material on LJ if that will make it and me subject to such evil or potential evil. If you care to follow my posts, I suggest you have a look at:

http://vakkotaur.insanejournal.com/ instead.

Or, where I might be more active:

https://elegantungulate.wordpress.com/

At most I might post pointers to such here.

It does sadden and annoy me that LJ is not merely fading away, but is being killed. I once paid for the "lifetime" membership for the utility of things and the ease of not having to fiddle with an ongoing subscription. That money seems a sad waste now.

Am I overreacting? I hope so. But better safe than sorry.
Voting with my virtual hooves.
See you... elsewhere.

Comments

[malterre.livejournal.com]

I totally support your decision and will see you over at Wordpress!

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I might not "follow" using WP's setup, but PhoenixSwords is now on personal bookmark list of daily checked blogs. Well, almost daily. Schedule can falter for/during travel.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I should add, I'm still quite new to WP really and if there are problems commenting, it's that I haven't set things up just so - and do not know what bits might need to be frobbed to make things work properly. If there problems, do let me know so I become aware of them and can at least attempt resolving them. Thank you.

[mightyix.livejournal.com]

I moved to Dreamwidth. mightyix there as well.

[luke-jaywalker.livejournal.com]

I'd been going to ask, Vakkotaur. No DreamWidth?

N, add me on that thing. I don't think you have yet.