nika - letter to self-censoring russians
June 14th, 2005
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letter to self-censoring russians

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From:[info]nikadubrovsky@lj
Date:June 14th, 2005 - 02:00 pm

ну и что?

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позволю себе процитировать Ноэля:
"Their terms of service document is their strategy for coercing you to help them to meet their legal obligations. The degree of sensitivity with which that policy is written and enforced is going to be determined by two things, aside from the legal requirements: (1) the existing attitude at the organization, developed or undeveloped as it may be; and (2) the pressure that you as a community of users place upon them."
"The point is not to "fight" with the LJ management, but to raise their consciousness. I am advocating an aggressive approach to that, however: dramatizing the issues at stake, even if this particular case does not involve life and death. I believe this is important, because I don't index the "value" of liberties based solely on their immediate, incidental closeness to -- or distance from -- tangible, physically altering forces.
In other words, it's worth taking this on now, in a very serious way, just as it would have been worth it for Russians worldwide to take on the Russian government's attacks on the briefly free Russian media *before* the fight became hopeless. You're dealing with a company here, not a government, but this company is behaving as a de facto government. They can either move more in the direction of "of the people, by the people, for the people", or in another direction. But it is unlikely that they won't move at all, with or without your influence."
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