Wait, so LJ isn't just for fanfic and porn?!

Cyber war on Russian activist bloggers intensifies - ...blogging on LiveJournal.com has become a potent force for checking the corruption and power of the Russian state. Yesterday, this blogging community - which has faced frequent attacks recently - came under an unprecedented "sustained and powerful" attack. At 2 pm, a massive attack targeted the top 5 blogs on LiveJournal, including Aleksei Navalny's blog (whose has just launched a new crowd-sourcing website called RosPil to combat state corruption). As LiveJournal administrators were responding to this attack, hackers targeted another 30 popular LiveJournal bloggers and communities. The attack - a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) - was successful in knocking LiveJournal offline.


Unfortunately this means the attacks will probably keep coming, but, while I will be backing up everything with Dreamwidth, I'm definitely sticking around LJ. I've been here for almost ten years and no anti-free speech, pro-corruption jackasses are going to drive me away.