London Calling
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanA couple of weeks or so ago there was a brief resurgence of the latest outbreak of paranoia in certain sectors of the so-called “Live Journal community” that had the more insecure bloggers calling for a content strike and others threatening to take their need for free blog space elsewhere. I, of course, fully support this paranoia, as my writings, probably more than most, are earth shaking in their import and the fact that I can measure total visitors to my blog over three of the five years I have been writing it at fewer that than two thousand serves to support this.
With a user base in the millions, the dozen or so denizens in the LJ Politburo and their handful of highly trained volunteer cyber-gestapo should have no problem at all reading, analysing and censoring our every word to suit their projected world view.
With this indisputable fact in mind, there seems to be a nascent movement to abandon Live Journal and go somewhere where our deep philosophical and proto-revolutionary treatises on the world of politics et cetera will continue to have their undeniable impact, but without the unquestioned censorious editorial input we have all become used to. In short, people are quite rightly and for the sake of democracy and free speech as we know it, threatening to up digital stakes and rage into the void on other forums.
I suggested Insane Journal for those radically important souls who should not be silenced by censors as it is based upon the same open source software as Live Journal but free from the predations of the ever invasive mind police.
Sadly, that service has been off line for two days now. Go elsewhere; flee! That bastion of free speech has fallen too. Not to the forces of the editor, but to the assassination of the server.
I plan to stay here and continue to corrupt the Live Journal from the inside as I have since 2003.
With a user base in the millions, the dozen or so denizens in the LJ Politburo and their handful of highly trained volunteer cyber-gestapo should have no problem at all reading, analysing and censoring our every word to suit their projected world view.
With this indisputable fact in mind, there seems to be a nascent movement to abandon Live Journal and go somewhere where our deep philosophical and proto-revolutionary treatises on the world of politics et cetera will continue to have their undeniable impact, but without the unquestioned censorious editorial input we have all become used to. In short, people are quite rightly and for the sake of democracy and free speech as we know it, threatening to up digital stakes and rage into the void on other forums.
I suggested Insane Journal for those radically important souls who should not be silenced by censors as it is based upon the same open source software as Live Journal but free from the predations of the ever invasive mind police.
Sadly, that service has been off line for two days now. Go elsewhere; flee! That bastion of free speech has fallen too. Not to the forces of the editor, but to the assassination of the server.
I plan to stay here and continue to corrupt the Live Journal from the inside as I have since 2003.
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(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-16 10:37 am (UTC)If you'd like to step this way, we have a
shallow grave in the woodspolitical re-education seminar waiting for you.I'll now have to stifle a mild chuckle about the apparent instability of the Insane.
Out of interest
Date: 2008-04-16 10:41 am (UTC)Re: Out of interest
Date: 2008-04-16 10:50 am (UTC)Re: Out of interest
Date: 2008-04-16 11:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-16 11:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-16 11:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-16 01:33 pm (UTC)One does what one can (and my blood pressure requires I vent on occasion).
(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-16 01:32 pm (UTC)Most people here just diarise and rant about their own quietly desperate lives rather than posting photos of naked women or brag about their terrorist activities. When LJ stops me saying "blighter" and "bogshite", and enthusing about nosh and the blues, I shall wriggle under the wire to freedom. Until then, I'm content to be with the other kulaks in this gulag.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-16 07:21 pm (UTC)How can anyone hope to change the world when they don't have a liquor licence... pish tush, I might think about finding a forum that does have one..... or not.
Nah, I'll just sit here on this bench in the evening sun and burble.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-16 09:04 pm (UTC)The wider LJ thing doesn't really impact on me, nor do I see why it should. As long as I can swear and post LOLCats, I don't think I'm going to bother getting riled about my personal freedoms. Considering I live in the US now, I have far wider-reaching personal freedom encroachments to worry about. :P