Yes, I Am Joining

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While we can all debate about presidential candidates, the platform we are doing it on, LJ, is getting disturbingly unstable. With seemingly added fun facts of of LJ management not communicating with LJ almost at all.

That paid advertisements for 'curing' homosexuality or autism are now sometimes appearing next to the writings of glbt or aspergers bloggers who opted for a free journal is bad enough, but the censoring of non-wholesome popular LJ interests is disturbing -- and it was no mistake. No comment even made on it either.

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LiveJournal Content Strike, Friday, March 21, midnight to midnight GMT.

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The first half seems to be a US person trying to school Russian Business Culture how they should act, and we can see the clash between Consumer Expectations and freewheeling Ruskies has certainly been amusing, from a meta perspective where my blog is not being threatened -- I mean, the way alone SUP has allowed the discussion to be hijacked by a loose cannon non-spokesperson giving interviews...

While all the points the writer raised of what SUP did are true, what he thinks they should do is a very US-centric communication strategy, complete with PR flaks and Process and Customer Representatives, a paradigm that I loathe for a system like this. I'd rather he have suggested a more direct structure, utterly possible on this system, if the C*Os of the company actually cared to blog and allow everyone to co-think. What the writer is suggesting is replacing the stone wall with painted smiles, because Consumers have been taught that is what they should expect from "good" companies -- taught by the PR industry.

As far as the boycott being anti-semitic or anti-Russian, seems like guilt by association. In fact, it is so close to Godwinizing the discussion that my co-intelpro hackles are going up: what would be nicer for SUP than to be able to claim that strikers are playing into anti-semitic hands? Still, SUP lives by our content that draws readers, including anti-Semite groups and virulent Russia-haters, so my reasons to strike still stand, and my wish to just remind SUP/LJ what they should be sheperding here and where their money really comes from still stands too.

In fact, I am ready to claim that by striking and getting more people to buy in, I am helping to tone down antisemitism on LJ for a day. I am a hero. Does that sound specious? So does the latter part of that post.