Responding to Mr. Nossik, I’d like to point out two things.
First, I expressed no opinion as to what was actually happening behind the scenes at Live Journal. I only reported that concerns had been expressed.
Second, I should note that the link to my source material concerning the reports about the Live Journal takeover was inadvertently omitted from the text. It is here:
http://www.theotherrussia.org/2007/12/13/the-last-island-of-freedom/
Another report can be found here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/25/opinion/edmorozov.php
and there are many such examples easily discovered with a Google search.
I appreciate Mr. Nossik’s opinion that there is nothing to worry about, but that’s all he’s expressing — and the fact that he cites Live Journal itself, rather than some more impartial source, I find questionable.
