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So apparently LJ's answer on the whole privacy problem inherent in letting people crosspost screened comments and comments on locked posts is to turn it off for non-Cyrillic but leave it on for Cyrillic users. Since anyone can opt into "Cyrillic services" at any time, this is really no fix at all.
I understand (sort of) that LJ was/is used very differently in Russia and all, but that's one of the things that made the alliance with SUP so unholy beyond even the dreams of 6A - the segments of users are different enough that they can have mutually incompatible needs, and you wind up forcing something considered hateful onto one part to please the other. Maybe they feel that's where their bread is buttered and the opinions of the dissenters don't really matter (I was disturbed but not very surprised when I learned that SUP's CEO or whoever it was has considerable stock in Facebook and Twitter), but still it feels like trying to join up two things that were too different in character to be joined.
I understand (sort of) that LJ was/is used very differently in Russia and all, but that's one of the things that made the alliance with SUP so unholy beyond even the dreams of 6A - the segments of users are different enough that they can have mutually incompatible needs, and you wind up forcing something considered hateful onto one part to please the other. Maybe they feel that's where their bread is buttered and the opinions of the dissenters don't really matter (I was disturbed but not very surprised when I learned that SUP's CEO or whoever it was has considerable stock in Facebook and Twitter), but still it feels like trying to join up two things that were too different in character to be joined.