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

[shapinglight]

I've been offline since Saturday and have only the haziest idea what's going on?

What's going on?

[dragonyphoenix]

I'm also leery of signing the agreement. Looks like I'm abandoning my LJ account. ;-(

[shadowkat]

After my Russian co-worker almost talked me into signing it, you've talked me out of it.

I'm not willing to sign the thing in order to delete my journal, which by the way annoys me that I can't delete it without signing the agreement. But it feels safer somehow.

You can by the way read LJ without signing it. Just don't log in. Actually you can do a lot anonymously on it by not logging in. I discovered that yesterday.
But they may decide it's spam.

Interestingly enough it doesn't apply to paid users (because it can't, since they aren't protected under the consumer rights act.)

[frogfarm]

This is why I never agree to any terms of service. Just like America, if they want me gone, they'll have to get up on their hind legs and throw me out.