Livejournal: Now Under Russian Control.
As many of you know, I've been blogging at Livejournal since 2002. When they sold their site to Russians who gave far less control over content, I started blogging at Dreamwidth and cross posting to LJ instead. I've always continued to read at both places, and to make sure my own posts make it there.
I have a pet conspiracy theory about Russia and our internet. It's one that seems increasingly true the more things happen in the world with President Cyka. It seems super obvious to me that this Syria bombing is 100% fuckery to make us stop questioning DJT's many Russian connections. And just like every time he gives a speech where he doesn't manage to sound like a sundowning mental patient...the media can't shut up about how "presidential" he's being. STOP BEING FOOLED.
Even if he was being super Presidential, bombing some random base and killing civilians isn't going to make Assad suddenly be cooler to his own people. Maybe if we were going to kill Assad or swoop in and take his Sarin and shit, that might make sense. But we're not doing that. We're shooting missiles that are killing civilians--in order to demonstrate how fucking awful it is to kill civilians. And before anyone gives me that shit about how war has casualties, I'll remind you all that once again, we have not declared war. As usual, we just started shooting shit up and daring the rest of the world to either join in or stop us. And because most of the rest of the world aren't the buttinski's that we are, they don't.
Anyway...
I went over to Livejournal today to take down my account. See, any digital info that's stored outside the US can legally be given to the CIA without any sort of authorization. So when I got a notice saying that there's a new TOS, I did not agree. They also have a policy against "political solicitation." I'm not 100% on what political solicitation involves, but I'm reasonably sure that I engage in it. Even if I didn't, I'd prefer to have at least the semblance of privacy as I cling to the idea that no government agency is interested in what I'm getting up to online.
My plan was absolutely to take my entire account down. But in order to do that, I have to agree to the new TOS. I do not agree, and I'm not about to say that I do. If I agree, doesn't that mean they can keep a copy of all my old blogs? But if I don't do anything, they already have my old blogs. Presuming a reality where I've said things that would make Putin mad (like say, I do not like POTUS45 and think he's a lying cyka), I'd just as soon live in a world where that doesn't put me in danger. I order a lot of delivery food, so poisoning me would be pretty easy.
And you know that guy loves to poison people.
For now, I'm not doing anything and will try to continue crossposting there. Not sure if they'll let me though. When I said "not now" to the new TOS, the only choice they gave me was "Log Out." Pretty scary what happens inside of just a few years, right?
I have a pet conspiracy theory about Russia and our internet. It's one that seems increasingly true the more things happen in the world with President Cyka. It seems super obvious to me that this Syria bombing is 100% fuckery to make us stop questioning DJT's many Russian connections. And just like every time he gives a speech where he doesn't manage to sound like a sundowning mental patient...the media can't shut up about how "presidential" he's being. STOP BEING FOOLED.
Even if he was being super Presidential, bombing some random base and killing civilians isn't going to make Assad suddenly be cooler to his own people. Maybe if we were going to kill Assad or swoop in and take his Sarin and shit, that might make sense. But we're not doing that. We're shooting missiles that are killing civilians--in order to demonstrate how fucking awful it is to kill civilians. And before anyone gives me that shit about how war has casualties, I'll remind you all that once again, we have not declared war. As usual, we just started shooting shit up and daring the rest of the world to either join in or stop us. And because most of the rest of the world aren't the buttinski's that we are, they don't.
Anyway...
I went over to Livejournal today to take down my account. See, any digital info that's stored outside the US can legally be given to the CIA without any sort of authorization. So when I got a notice saying that there's a new TOS, I did not agree. They also have a policy against "political solicitation." I'm not 100% on what political solicitation involves, but I'm reasonably sure that I engage in it. Even if I didn't, I'd prefer to have at least the semblance of privacy as I cling to the idea that no government agency is interested in what I'm getting up to online.
My plan was absolutely to take my entire account down. But in order to do that, I have to agree to the new TOS. I do not agree, and I'm not about to say that I do. If I agree, doesn't that mean they can keep a copy of all my old blogs? But if I don't do anything, they already have my old blogs. Presuming a reality where I've said things that would make Putin mad (like say, I do not like POTUS45 and think he's a lying cyka), I'd just as soon live in a world where that doesn't put me in danger. I order a lot of delivery food, so poisoning me would be pretty easy.
And you know that guy loves to poison people.
For now, I'm not doing anything and will try to continue crossposting there. Not sure if they'll let me though. When I said "not now" to the new TOS, the only choice they gave me was "Log Out." Pretty scary what happens inside of just a few years, right?