regardless of where you are, your LiveJournal could be possibly be deleted without notice for expressing opposition to Russia or its interests or for other content censored in Russia (eg LGBT-related content).if you’re in Russia or vulnerable to Russia, and a political opponent, you could now be more easily identified by Russian security.Siderea expresses several important concerns with this: Thanks to my original source of information about this (found via on Twitter). Internet companies will also be required to allow Russian authorities access to users’ information. It means bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers must register with the mass media regulator, Roskomnadzor, and conform to the regulations that govern the country’s larger media outlets. Ī BBC report on Russian law regarding social media in 2014 seems to confirm this:Ī new law imposing restrictions on users of social media has come into effect in Russia. SUP has, to the best of my knowledge, not announced or commented on this themselves, but there’s more information at rahirah’s Dreamwidth journal with links to different evidence of the new location of the servers.Ī Russian-language LiveJournaller appears to report that Russian law then allows that all the confidential information of users is available for domestic security services in real time. While LiveJournal has been owned by Russian company SUP since 2007, the servers had until now been hosted in the US and access to them somewhat controlled by Californian law. LiveJournal is now hosted in RussiaĪs of late December 2016, the LiveJournal servers (computers) are now hosted in Russia. Signal-boosting this news as I know a few people still maintaining a LiveJournal who might choose to delete it, or change their use of LiveJournal after learning about this.
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