Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

[I never got around to using this when folks were still dealing with the sale of LJ, but it's been sitting in the queue waiting for something like Facebook suddenly getting insistent about its real names policy (or Google's outing of trans people a few years ago) ...]

"We give these companies a great deal of control over our privacy and our speech - and even if we trust that company with those responsibilities now, there are no guarantees that the pressures upon and motivations of that company will stay constant over time.

"The news that LiveJournal has been sold to SUP, a Moscow-based company, is the latest vivid indication of this danger. [...]"

-- Danny O'Brien, "Between Friends: The Perils of Centralized Blogging", Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2007-12-03

[Happy first day of (astronomical) Autumn! For folks who like to keep track, the exact time of the Autumnal Equinox this year as 22:29 last night Eastern Daylight Time / 02:29 this morning Coordinated Universal Time.]