LJ Terms Of Shit

[beer_good_foamy]

I just spent 20 minutes trying to add the following reply on the LJ News post (http://news.livejournal.com/151767.html):

Since I won't sign anything where I have no way of knowing what it is I'm signing, I'm commenting through (OpenID/Twitter).

Please note that in accordance with part 3 Article 10.1 of the Federal Act of the Russian Federation No. 149-ФЗ the Administration shall keep the following information and provide it upon the lawful request of the competent authorities regardless of Users will
I am not a Russian citizen. What is Article 10.2 of the Federal Act of the Russian Federation No. 149-ФЗ? Please provide me with a full text of it before I agree to it.

Mark Content estimated by Russian legislation as inappropriate for children (0 −18) as “adult material” by using Service functions.
I am not a Russian citizen. Please provide me with a comprehensive list of content that Russian legislation considers inappropriate for children, and which of these LJ intends to inforce.

ATTENTION: this translation of the User Agreement is not a legally binding document. The original User Agreement, which is valid, is located at the following address: http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos-ru.bml.
I am not a Russian citizen. If the English translation is not valid, why do I need to sign it? What's in the Russian version that we're not told in the translation?

Unfortunately, LJ won't let me sign in through OpenID, and when I created a Twitter account and signed on using that, I was told my reply was marked as spam.

(Remember that when LJ was first bought by the Russians, we were told that "Complaints will not be accepted. They'll get used to it. Anything sent in English is spam.")

So, fuck LJ.

Comments

[shadowkat]

Thank you!! I deleted it and told them why. Goodbye LJ. The only thing I lost was posts on a recent trip to Costa Rica. I can always repost that stuff here on DW, if I wish. Everything else is backed up here. Oh and the comments...but, I don't tend to re-read my journal anyhow.

[dragonyphoenix]

I also told them why although I think I said something like "stop fucking with us" ;-)

[shadowkat]

I was a bit more diplomatic.

There are folks on LJ who don't understand why we are leaving. They think all user agreements on social media are the same and just as sketchy. (I know they aren't.)

Apparently the JavaScript option is no longer available -- the LJ coders figured out we were using that. But Ghostery which blocks script and tracking on sites, might me.

[dragonyphoenix]

It looks like Ghostery worked for you? I'm glad if so.

I figured the JavaScript option wouldn't last long. That's why I used it right away and shared that fix quickly.

[shadowkat]

You the Ghostery worked like a charm. Although, granted, I didn't try anything other than deleting the journal. I sort of wish I had, but I doubt it would have worked.

My mistake...was not leaving completely when they announced they were moving the servers to Russia. As a legal professional, I knew that what that meant, I've no excuse. But, damn, I was on lj since 2003, I didn't want to leave.

[dragonyphoenix]

I'm glad that worked.

I had ported my LJ journals to dreamwidth after they'd announced moving to the Russian servers, but I hadn't closed LJ down completely.