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So you're pissed you can't write about the latest anime you watched or how your bacon overload recipe or give your friends yet another dose of done-to-death lolcat humor. You think YOU'VE got problems? Please to be reading link to Voice of America. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Russians-Battle-Over-Internet-Freedom-119494969.html


www.readwriteweb.com/archives/thousands_of_bloggers_struggle_to_withstand_wave_o.php

"Cynics might shrug at the troubles of the no-longer dominant blogging/social networking service, but attacks against LiveJournal are attacks against the voices of people who choose to use that platform to publish and subscribe to the world. [Emphasis mine.] The ability for any everyday person to publish their thoughts and subscribe freely to their personal interests in the world is a precious historical anomaly."

That's right. It's not just an attack on President Medveyev and other Russian users, it's an attack on ME. It's an attack on YOU. It's an attack on our right to free speech. It's an attack on folks I don't know who post beautiful photographs of what they see in the places they live on [livejournal.com profile] lj_photophile . It's an attack on those nice folks who invited me to Be Japanese with them this summer in Siberia. (Not enough vacation time to devote to the flight plus several days on the Trans Siberian Railway, not to mention $$$, but wouldn't that be something?)

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