Well, I'm sure the 14 emo goth lesbian 25 year olds that still think their teenagers and that still use that service will just be suicidal about this move.
Which, of course means, that they'll like it. Let the ritualistic self-cutting begin! Oh, or maybe they'll switch to Russian Roulette, who knows?
Parul
· 2 years ago
Well I'm actually kind of confused with this deal.We know change can be scary, even if it's a good change.Russian company buying LJ, given Russian servers' problems with viruses and the like. If i can recollect there were a lot of embedded viruses in there, so it that LJ is going to get migrated to Russian servers. Silly must say !
Well Anyways ALA SUP's get their priorities straight: their number one goal is to make sure all of you who are current LiveJournal users are happy, and to make LiveJournal better than ever before.
Don't blog anything negative about The People's Dictator, Vladimir.
Or the Kremlin SS will get you with an icepick.
Got to wonder how many Pro-Democracy blogs will be deleted. Then again, Live journal pretty much sucks anyway compared to Google's service and Wordpress.
Bob J.
· 2 years ago
They'll summon OMAN to whoop you while blaring bad techno music
WithSubtitles
· 2 years ago
It all begins like this. Then our mother abandons us for a surly American fiancee she met on the Internet. Then when we're forced out of the apartment by our evil aunt, huffing glue, and turning tricks at dive bars for enough money to live on, we'll get romanced by some handsome looking Russian fellow who promises us a job in Sweden. Before you know it, we're sold into the sex trade.
This can't end well.
Denis Kolesnichenko
· 2 years ago
When SUP first partnered with LJ, they negotiated something around 20 mln to be invested to enhance marketing across the russian LJ-communities.
If you’ll trace thoroughly to where the money flow, you’ll learn, that a guy Andrew Paulson has been working for SUP for quite some time. He came there from Afisha - an entertainment press and web publisher, arguably largest provider of theatrical, cinematic etc. entertainment info in Russia. Afisha was bought by PROF-Media publishing house, currently owned by one of the Top-5 Russian oligarchs - Vladimir POTANIN. Potanin’s primary assets are Kombinat Noriliskiy Nikel (largest base metal producer in russia), gold production facilities and large-scale industrial production (tubes, machinery etc.).
PROF-Media is actively expanding in it’s internet division (some time ago, it bought a decadent russian search engine - Rambler). It’s not known for sure, but very likely that SUP is also under the influence of Potanin’s money.
Potanin is politically neutral, but is generally supportive of Russian current political balance. So if my logic is true, some political censoring might be expected…
My second guess, which my be even better, is Leonid MELAMED. A former top-manager of Russian energy monopolist RAO-EAS, now a book and internet tycoon. There were talks, that he, among other powerful people is behind SUP Fabrik.
Efim Alduchov
· 2 years ago
It's realy funy to read about Soviet Russian, control of democracy and so on, from people living in US. The deal is not about Russia, it's about business. Sup has some success (big or small) in getting money from LJ in russian segment and want's to try to do this in all LJ. Why not? Why Google has that right and Sup doesn't?
PS And about politics. One of the main Tops in SUP is Anton Nosik (Dolboeb), who you nobody can name a fan of kremlin. But any way the deal is not in it.
Told that the deal was 30 millions (http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_...) When SUP took only russian part, they paid about 5 millions and it seems that SixApart bought LJ for 6 millions. Good deal ! We hope that they will put some money to do better with typepad and movabletype !
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Which, of course means, that they'll like it. Let the ritualistic self-cutting begin! Oh, or maybe they'll switch to Russian Roulette, who knows?
If i can recollect there were a lot of embedded viruses in there, so it that LJ is going to get migrated to Russian servers. Silly must say !
Well Anyways ALA SUP's get their priorities straight: their number one goal is to make sure all of you who are current LiveJournal users are happy, and to make LiveJournal better than ever before.
Parul
www.bhopu.com
Or the Kremlin SS will get you with an icepick.
Got to wonder how many Pro-Democracy blogs will be deleted. Then again, Live journal pretty much sucks anyway compared to Google's service and Wordpress.
This can't end well.
If you’ll trace thoroughly to where the money flow, you’ll learn, that a guy Andrew Paulson has been working for SUP for quite some time. He came there from Afisha - an entertainment press and web publisher, arguably largest provider of theatrical, cinematic etc. entertainment info in Russia. Afisha was bought by PROF-Media publishing house, currently owned by one of the Top-5 Russian oligarchs - Vladimir POTANIN. Potanin’s primary assets are Kombinat Noriliskiy Nikel (largest base metal producer in russia), gold production facilities and large-scale industrial production (tubes, machinery etc.).
PROF-Media is actively expanding in it’s internet division (some time ago, it bought a decadent russian search engine - Rambler). It’s not known for sure, but very likely that SUP is also under the influence of Potanin’s money.
Potanin is politically neutral, but is generally supportive of Russian current political balance. So if my logic is true, some political censoring might be expected…
My second guess, which my be even better, is Leonid MELAMED. A former top-manager of Russian energy monopolist RAO-EAS, now a book and internet tycoon. There were talks, that he, among other powerful people is behind SUP Fabrik.
The deal is not about Russia, it's about business. Sup has some success (big or small) in getting money from LJ in russian segment and want's to try to do this in all LJ. Why not? Why Google has that right and Sup doesn't?
PS
And about politics. One of the main Tops in SUP is Anton Nosik (Dolboeb), who you nobody can name a fan of kremlin. But any way the deal is not in it.
When SUP took only russian part, they paid about 5 millions and it seems that SixApart bought LJ for 6 millions.
Good deal !
We hope that they will put some money to do better with typepad and movabletype !