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To the Russian people
This is my "crash and burn" post. I expect my account to be terminated shortly after I post this, but perhaps someone in Russia, if only a LiveJournal employee, will read it. If it's auto-blocked the moment I post it, that will be interesting information. My apologies for not being able to write in Russian.
To whom it may concern: Putin is a ( Read more... ) -
The Internet of Things and Law
Today's Techno-Liberty post is a little late, because it's long and took some extra effort (and also because of a very nice concert last night). I discuss whether a regulatory or tort-based approach is the better way to deal with "Internet of Things" products that are so poorly designed that criminals and hacktivists can turn them into tools for ( Read more... ) -
This week in Techno-Liberty
Today's Techno-Liberty is a digest of recent events ( Read more... ) -
LJ reported to block Dreamwidth crossposts
According to a recent update by the Dreamwidth staff, LiveJournal has been blocking access from Dreamwidth servers, preventing crossposting. This may be a technical glitch, but the possibility that it's retaliation against the exodus of users to Dreamwidth is hard to dismiss.
Some commenters report that they're still able to crosspost or recently -
New on Techno-Liberty
Today on Techno-Liberty: The Tor Project and browser. -
LiveJournal's move, explained!
There was a very good reason (from SUP's viewpoint of self-preservation) for LiveJournal's moving its servers to Russia. It's the same reason Russia has permanently blocked LinkedIn: A law requiring data on Russians to be in Russia, on servers with back doors for the government.
I've put the full account on Techno-Liberty. As far as I can tell, no ( Read more... ) -
The LiveJournal move, explained!
While researching Internet blocking for Techno-Liberty, I came upon a Telegraph article that sheds a lot of light on the LiveJournal move:
Russia has ordered internet providers in the country to block access to LinkedIn after the professional social network was found to violate data laws.
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Exporting from LiveJournal
A simple way to export your posts is with the export page. Exporting as XML would work better in the long run than CSV. You have to export each month separately, though. It should be scriptable with the right tools. -
The Aleksei Kungurov case
Human Rights Watch has an account of the Russian government's treatment of Aleksei Kungurov (kungurov), a blogger on LiveJournal. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for criticizing the Russian airstrikes in Syria. The article says that his account was also "hacked."
Strangely, the article that supposedly got him jailed is still up. Running ( Read more... )