I went to post this morning, and got hit with the new ToS from Livejournal's Russian Overlords.
I find that I cannot in clear conscience agree to them. For one, a quick read of the translated terms tells me that Livejournal no longer pretends to adhere to the concept of Freedom of Speech and privacy as (still) practiced in the USA. For those of
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I'm Editrx there.
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(slowly, I'm bringing everything under a single ID, the better to cross platforms.)
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Business contracts need to be done in a single language, yes, but doing it in the language that the majority of people who must sign if here (and I doubt your claim that 75% of users are Russian -
can you cite your source please?) cannot read is not good faith.
None of which changes the fact that the context of the translated version is still - as I said above - not something I can stay with. Your attempt to lecture me is hereby rejected.
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Live Journal WAS an American company founded in America that was sold to a Russian company back in 2007.
The Live Journal Stats page has been offline for years now, but according to this page, Live Journal's users are still predominantly in the United States.
https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/Livejournal/Market-Share
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You don’t believe in freedom of speech either, you fucking hypocrite twatwaffle.
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