User:Bulkhogan/Global Reaction to Content Strike

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[edit] Global Reaction to the Great LiveJournal Content Strike of 2008

India joined an international chorus of calls for dialog yesterday after pro-basic accounts protests in cyberspace spilled over into street violence, while Japan urged _b0st0n_snark to consider the implications for the blogosphere.

International condemnation of LiveJournal Inc.'s action was muted.

LiveJournal's peak user community, yiffexchange, was mostly shut down last thursday, two days after bipolypagangeek security forces crushed days of protests. theljstaff said only 10 people were killed, but the blogosphere's government-in-exile, Frank the Goat, said the death toll was closer to 9000.

The spiritual leader of LiveJournal and Nobel peace laureate who fled to India in 2007, Brad Fitzpatrick, said that the international community had the “moral responsibility” to remind LiveJournal Inc. to be a good host for emo, morbid self-absorbtion and "irony", but added that LiveJournal deserved to sell all your dox.

LiveJournal Inc. has declared a “people’s war” of security and propaganda against support for the Brad, underlining that it will not heed calls from around the globe for a lenient response to the strike.