Comments on: Russian media company buys online community LiveJournal

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:51:19 +0000

Good luck to them with developing livejournal and managing it in Russia. As a livejournal user I’ve made lots of great friends on it so I hope it’s a success in Russia.

By: Roundup: Quattrone is back and banking, LiveJournal rebellion and more » VentureBeat

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:04:29 +0000

[...] SUP bought LiveJournal, the social network/blog site with a large Russian audience, last year, we were concerned that censorship might ensue. LiveJournal has become a main forum for dissent against the Russian [...]

By: CER links: Cleantech, Kramlich, Russia-China web parallels - China Economic Review

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:49:32 +0000

[...] VentureBeat: Russian media company buys online community LiveJournal – Russian firm with links to the government buys blog provider; users and activists decry threat to freedom of speech – sounds just like China, too!` [...]

By: Cyrillic Partners » Russian Company Buys LiveJournal

Cyrillic Partners » Russian Company Buys LiveJournal — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:10:37 +0000

[...] Eric Eldon over-reacts to the deal’s political implications at VentureBeat. [...]

By: Yakov

Yakov — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:54:25 +0000

Please see how much SUP paid on http://ru.blognation.com

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Private Equity HUB - peHUB First Read — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:33:46 +0000

[...] VC-backed Six Apart is selling its LiveJournal blogging platform. But the big M&A news we’re waiting for is Automattic, whose [...]

By: E Tu, Six Apart?

E Tu, Six Apart? — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:10:05 +0000

As a native of former USSR I find this news appaling. Look no further than the ongoing coverage of Duma elections for what kind of country Russia has become and how political dissent is silenced and harrassed.

The advisory board is a joke and a sham. What matters is that any Russian-based company that wants to stay in business would turn its data to FSB (KGB 2.0) in an instant. This means handing over a detailed database of political speech and identifying info to the government. Google and Yahoo incidents pale in comparison – this is about snuffing out the entire generation of Russia’s potential leaders, not a few isolated cases.

Nice job, moral pygmies.

By: Yakov

Yakov — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:41:53 +0000

The Russians have proved they could grow the LiveJournal community in Russia. For sure, they could do that again with global community.