London Calling

A 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.

London Calling

A 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.