Incoming!

[elf]

LJ's Russian overlords have changed the TOS - and the new official version is only in Russian. The short synopsis: They're making a lot of changes tied into Russian law about online content. Adult content ratings, liability for comments on your blog, etc. Oh, and they've hyped up the advertising.

Lots of people talking about backing up their journals and moving to DW; some are going to IJ. Many journal deletions and lockdowns.

So, new people... welcome? DW has been slow but it's very friendly, and it's run by fannish people who want us to enjoy our time here.

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[elf]

Ok, unlike the US, Russian has no freedom-of-speech or privacy laws. Whether we get the rights allocated to us by law, depends on authoritative whim tempered by judicial reach.

The point is, we supposedly have a great many rights to speech in the US. We're technically, legally, allowed to say things the gov't doesn't like. We're allowed to say things that cost businesses money. We're allowed to openly advocate for changing laws, and we're allowed to insult other people as long as it doesn't cross the line into defamation. The US also has a very limited definition of "obscenity;" most things that most people would call "pornographic" are not legally obscene. Russia has very different laws about those areas.