If you still have a Livejournal, you might want to consider relocating it or archiving it now.

Relevant post: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1330197.html

The following is a copy-paste of the above linked post:

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Tue, Dec. 27th, 2016, 11:53 pm
[LJ, DW, Admin] Why Now

I am hearing credible reports that:

• The LJ servers are now in Russia.

• There has been a massive uptick in migrations from Cyrillic users into Dreamwidth.

I am hearing unverified reports that:

• There is some sort of political purge of accounts happening in the Cyrillic side of LJ.

See

previous post

for sources, evidence.

I am aware that:

• LJ has been in financial trouble for a while.

I am concerned that:

• The LJ servers may now be under the legal jurisdiction of Russia, not the US.

• The Russian government may now have unfettered access to all LJ content, especially including friends-locked content.

• That LJ users in Russia are at risk of persecution and prosecution for content (e.g. LGBT content, pro-Ukraine content) posted under lock in the previous 10+ years.

• That LJ users around the world may find their accounts deleted and their access terminated because of their political sentiments.

• That non-state actors – i.e. criminals – in Russia may wind up with access to locked LJ content, in any a number of scenarios, ranging from “SUP sells our data to stay afloat” to “disgruntled employee decides to moonlight” to “government agent shares data got by the state with the Russian mafia for kicks/favors” to “hackers”.

• That the Kremlin will drive enough Russosphere users off LJ, that it will no longer be financially viable for SUP, and collapse economically, causing the lights to go out on LJ abruptly.

You now know what I know about the situation…
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So yeah. Anyone who hasn’t migrated their LJ to DW might want to consider doing that. It sucks, some of us have been on LJ since the early oughties, but the shakier things get with Russia, the more that backing up to DW looks like a good idea. This post was made on my DW, btw. I have technically been crossposting over to LJ from DW since 2009.

You can also archive your LJ using LJarchive:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/

Where is the outrage?

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over two and a half million votes. This, after a recount was necessary due to Russia hacking our election computers on behalf of a man who is hiring neo-Nazis to his staff and has all the leadership ability of a moldy turnip in the back of the fridge, and yet very little is being done to stop him from becoming the President when clearly Hillary Clinton should be the one taking that office. The fact that this man cheated, lied, and stole his way to the White House should still be causing huge political outcry. The Media should all be demanding his head on a platter. There should still be rioting in the streets over this. The Congress and Senate and maybe even the Supreme Court should be doing everything in their power to stop this man from taking office. And yet, mostly silence. Two congress people, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, are doing all they can to stop him, and nobody else is doing squat.

All of which should be proving beyond a shadow of a doubt everything I’ve been saying for years: that the US is only pretending to be democratic, and is in fact an oligarchic fascist country ruled by the wealthiest 1% of Americans and influenced by multiple hostile foreign countries. After all this, anyone who is still blindly patriotic for this country, anyone who still thinks the US is the land of the free and home of the brave, is a complete and utter buffoon, and is complicit with foreign espionage, foreign terrorism, and corruption at the highest levels.