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Quick recap:
http://davesmusictank.livejournal.com/2509979.html
and
http://siderea.livejournal.com/1330197.html
Importing your account to Dreamwidth and deleting your LJ seems like a good idea at this point, considering the fact that anything you have posted, public, locked, or otherwise - paypal accounts, financial info, and other info, is not secure at this point and may be compromised - either by foriegn hackers or the Russian goverment.
However - according to the info in the above links, as many as 1000 LJ users in Russia right now have been imprisoned for things they’ve posted (e.g. LGBT content, pro-Ukraine content,) either in locked or unlocked posts, going back to 2006.
This is the regime that many Republicans are now lauding as a great alternative to eight years of Obama’s administration - which never took their guns, or their right to free speech, or violated their constitutional rights in any way, despite eight years of right wing propaganda bleating otherwise - even when they were threatening to kill President Barack Obama, and insulting him and his family with racial slurs.
This is the difference between a free, democratic society and a totalitarian regime. And this is why it is so troubling to me that so many Republicans seem so supportive of Vladimir Putin right now. Many of them seem to be in favor of the idea of a strongman taking over and “making America great again” - the same people who have been calling Obama a fascist despot for two Presidential terms. Many of them do not have any real idea what living under the regime of an actual fascist despot is really like. They might find out sooner than later.
ETA: And I'm kind of annoyed by the post with the "tee hee, look at all those losers exporting their journals, I'm not doing anything because I don't live in Russia so this doesn't concern me," comments, which has just made it into the top 25 entries on LJ. I understand people not wanting to up an abandon a service that they've used for ten years or more, but I'm not sure they are aware of the full weight of the situation. It also low-key shows support for a totalitarian regime which has already censored or jailed people for simply voicing opinions that they don't approve of - but then, the human trait which annoys me the most by far is peoples' tendency to ignore facts that make them uncomfortable.
