In Soviet Russia, blog posts you

[the_siobhan]

Wow. That was sudden. Six Apart has just sold LJ to a Soviet company called SUP.

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.

Best. Comment. Ever.

So whaddyah figure? Is a Russian company (albeit one with an American legal arm) likely to be less completely fucking asstarded about issues of censorship and obscenity?

What I'm listening to right this second: Mindless Self Indulgence

(I wonder how Diane's story would get flagged. You know, I still can't come up with a reasonable explanation as to why a woman would find a giant penis is her car. Obviously I need to drink more.)

Comments

[grimjim.livejournal.com]

Judging from this article a year ago, we should more likely be concerned about datamining than censorship.
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2006/11/72060?currentPage=all

Hosting in Russia, for example, puts traffic between LiveJournal and countries like the Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia on wires that can be tapped by the FSB, the successor to the KGB. Russian-language blogging from former Soviet Union states or even European bloggers would be exposed to Russian intelligence services -- even without court orders to seize data from Sup.