LiveJournal: Why We Oppose SOPA and PIPA

[theljstaff]

Since 1999, LiveJournal has been a safe harbor of self-expression and creativity, with the most substantial privacy policies of any social site. We believe the Internet must remain a place that is free to use, free to explore, and free to express.

This is why LiveJournal ardently opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect

Comments

[yun_miyake]

this is truly the end of the day if happens
let's do everything we can to stop it

[0_lechim]

You MUST be joking, right!?

you DO know that there is an entire parallel platform livejournal.ru , right!?

You do know that their main office is in Russia right now, right?
You are aware of the fact that LJ is owned by a russian billionare w. a shady past?!

The only thing the would need to #realocate#(in a leagal way of speaking) is to switch a few letters in a couple of countracts, and reroute us.

They are simply milking you,
and thouthands of other for PR reasons!

[riverdalegirl]

dude. chill. you don't have to be directly affected by something to know that it's wrong and want to speak against it.

and that makes it ok to lie for LJ ?!

[0_lechim]

and that makes it ok to lie for LJ ?!

Look at what they wrote: "taken down without any way for LiveJournal to address or correct the issue."

1st That is a lie. They can adress by rederecting via lj.ru
2nd It is simply disgusting to see how LJ original spirit of freedom gets destroyed from within by LJ owners greed

[yvonnereid]

I love livejournal so I will do whatever I can to help!

[valkyrie17]

Even though I'm not American, I'd like to add my support for the protest. Good luck!

[lilithrain]

Me too. That's why I signed the petition avaar.org. I think is spelt that right.

LJ owners profit from child porno.

[0_lechim]

Did you know that a member of supervising council (!!!) of LJ,
and one of the main LJ profiteers
has posted child porno ?!

If you think that THAT is ok, go on, and support current structure of LJ, and this letter.

TO ALL LJ STUFF:
member of LJ's supervising council
Artem Lebedev posted child porno in LJ.
He (A.Lebedev) is still a key figure for this company.

How in the world do you write this "moral" letter,
while LJ is still profiting from child porno ?!

[promisemewings]

Frankly, I think going black and not showing content or having an accessible website defeats the purpose (even though I know this is just a demonstration). If I didn't want to use the Internet today, I'd just stay off my computer. Just my opinion, though.

[fercita]

Yeah but in proportion, the people that don't turn on their computer is very, very minimal to the ones that actually do it this day and every day.

There was a time in which computers were considered a "nerd thing", now it's a necessary tool for self expression and communication around the world. Even more so that electronic apparatus have strove to resemble it or to serve as a substitute: ipads, phones, televisions with wifi.