Well damn.

[elisi]

The attack on LJ has reached the mainstream media!

Money quote:

"This kind of attack is something totally new," says Marina Litvinovich, a former government spin doctor who went on to create Russia's main aggregator of blog posts, BestToday.ru. "It is an attempt to uproot not one user but the entire LiveJournal community, which appears to have become too influential, too strong in setting the political agenda of the day."

Indeed, with around 5 million Russian accounts read by some 30 million people per month, LiveJournal has emerged as the country's last truly free and public space for political debate, a chaotic kind of intellectual clearinghouse and the source of not only gossip, conspiracy theories and pro-government propaganda, but also countless revelations of corruption and official incompetence. In terms of the sheer variety of opinions expressed and defended on LiveJournal, it has been leagues ahead of Russia's other media.

Makes me kinda proud. And worried.

Comments

[elleth]

Still, this attack was much worse than those in spring.
Oh, undoubtedly. Some sources also state that the attack was of a different nature than the ones in spring, this time attacking the service as a whole rather than the journals of a handful of bloggers. And that the magnitude of it this time must have cost approximately $15,000 to organize. (I have link&info roundups in my journal) Small fries probably look different...