Were it not for my sister
I'm on LJ as an additional connection with my sister. It is a good one. LJ allows me to ramble in a manner that I do not elsewhere. Some of it is part of an ongoing nearly daily conversation with my sister and much of it is an ongoing conversation with myself. Once I heard a writer say that he did not know the answer to a question as he had not yet written about it. I'm the same. It is mostly buzzy noise until I need to articulate. As I'm not much of a social butterfly I don't discuss much with anyone other than my wife so I seldom know what I think. LJ makes me articulate and I discover all kinds of things I didn't know I thought.
Signing the EULA definitely gave me pause, though. Much of my interface with the world is G+ and LJ, meaning very little. Even at that I fear this is me: Thank you Scott (and as a completely random appellation, Louis CK really upped the SNL crew's game). Hanging up my LJ on principle would not help anyone. Even starting a movement that reduced LJ to rubble would be pointless. But neither can I let it pass. The Internet is such a dual edged sword. On the one hand it is a megaphone for gas attack victims and Pussy Riot, on the other hand it is a record for the police and their state. But imposed silence is worse than even an fractured megaphone. The EULA terms that can only be described as draconian is clearly a direct attack on the personal freedom for the minorities deemed to be immoral in socially third world societies such as Russia.
My promise to LJ is that should I find a venue to resist I will do so. A way to effectively add my voice to the protest over LGBT subjugation I will add it.
Meanwhile I'll continue to use their site as a way to figure out what the hell I'm thinking about. And, maybe, if I'm lucky I'll get banned.
Bill
Signing the EULA definitely gave me pause, though. Much of my interface with the world is G+ and LJ, meaning very little. Even at that I fear this is me: Thank you Scott (and as a completely random appellation, Louis CK really upped the SNL crew's game). Hanging up my LJ on principle would not help anyone. Even starting a movement that reduced LJ to rubble would be pointless. But neither can I let it pass. The Internet is such a dual edged sword. On the one hand it is a megaphone for gas attack victims and Pussy Riot, on the other hand it is a record for the police and their state. But imposed silence is worse than even an fractured megaphone. The EULA terms that can only be described as draconian is clearly a direct attack on the personal freedom for the minorities deemed to be immoral in socially third world societies such as Russia.
My promise to LJ is that should I find a venue to resist I will do so. A way to effectively add my voice to the protest over LGBT subjugation I will add it.
Meanwhile I'll continue to use their site as a way to figure out what the hell I'm thinking about. And, maybe, if I'm lucky I'll get banned.
Bill
