Are you familiar with the changes LJ made in December 2016 (moving all its servers to Russia), and the April 2017 revision to the LJ TOS? And how fluently do you read Russian? The legally-binding version of the current LJ TOS officially makes LJ posts subject to Russian law, and also the TOS are written only in Russian, and the English TOS translation is not legally binding.
Why quote Gizmodo? That crap is definitely not legally binding …
Dreamwdth is no better than LJ. Quoting from the TOS: "we have the right (but not the obligation), in our sole discretion, to remove or refuse to remove any Content from the service".
See that? Anything they want to remove, they can remove.
In practice, I've not seen anything being removed from LJ since April 2017, except users leaving on their own account.
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I read the Dreamwidth TOS -- as much of them as the interface would allow -- and found them at least as bad as LJ's TOS, so I'm nowhere at all.
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To quote Gizmodo: LiveJournal has officially banned "political solicitation" - which can mean anything that criticises the Russian government, as well as pro-LGBTQ discussions.
AFAICT, Dreamwidth is better than that.
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Dreamwdth is no better than LJ. Quoting from the TOS: "we have the right (but not the obligation), in our sole discretion, to remove or refuse to remove any Content from the service".
See that? Anything they want to remove, they can remove.
In practice, I've not seen anything being removed from LJ since April 2017, except users leaving on their own account.
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Move along.
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