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LiveJournal messaged all users today calling on them to send congratulatory messages to Brad Fitzpatrick on the 20th anniversary of his creation of the LJ website.
They provided a blank card that began, "Dear Brad," and noted that the message would be sent to "your editor" and then posted on "your journal."
I'm pretty sure that my message, which follows, is one that won't make the cut:
"Dear Brad,
Twenty years ago, you created something that many of us bought into and entrusted with the stories of our lives.
Why would you sell that out, why would you entrust so many life stories, worldwide, to a Russian state media group? You probably don't care to be reminded of this, but that's why I and so many others moved our journals to Dream-
width and elsewhere..."
At the time that I switched to Dreamwidth, I figured it was better to keep a low profile and to just be happy that I'd been able to preserve the journal which I'd kept for almost as many years as there'd been an LJ.
I had even signed the new TOS agreement, which the new owners required, in order to maintain access to my journal until I could find a safer place to keep it.
In the past, I'd considered myself a political activist and, as such, was all too aware of the price that's so often paid, not just by the activist, but by family and friends as well.
And by the time that Brad Fitzpatrick made his "deal with the Devil," I felt old, tired, and totally unprepared to take on yet another fight, even in a very minor role as a media activist.
Then we elected a President who may very well have sold out this nation in much the same way as BF had sold out his wonderful and vibrant LiveJournal community.
And so, in that context, I made the decision today to create a very small wave. Less than a ripple, even. But that's what I did and now I await whatever consequences may come of it.
Because, as I've so often told my grandson, there are always consequences.
I just hope that the legacy which I'd intended to leave to him and other family members--in the form of this less-than-perfect story about my less-than-perfect life--will not turn out to be one of the casualties of my belated decision to speak the truth...
LPK
Dreamwidth
4.16.2019
They provided a blank card that began, "Dear Brad," and noted that the message would be sent to "your editor" and then posted on "your journal."
I'm pretty sure that my message, which follows, is one that won't make the cut:
"Dear Brad,
Twenty years ago, you created something that many of us bought into and entrusted with the stories of our lives.
Why would you sell that out, why would you entrust so many life stories, worldwide, to a Russian state media group?
width and elsewhere..."
At the time that I switched to Dreamwidth, I figured it was better to keep a low profile and to just be happy that I'd been able to preserve the journal which I'd kept for almost as many years as there'd been an LJ.
I had even signed the new TOS agreement, which the new owners required, in order to maintain access to my journal until I could find a safer place to keep it.
In the past, I'd considered myself a political activist and, as such, was all too aware of the price that's so often paid, not just by the activist, but by family and friends as well.
And by the time that Brad Fitzpatrick made his "deal with the Devil," I felt old, tired, and totally unprepared to take on yet another fight, even in a very minor role as a media activist.
Then we elected a President who may very well have sold out this nation in much the same way as BF had sold out his wonderful and vibrant LiveJournal community.
And so, in that context, I made the decision today to create a very small wave. Less than a ripple, even. But that's what I did and now I await whatever consequences may come of it.
Because, as I've so often told my grandson, there are always consequences.
I just hope that the legacy which I'd intended to leave to him and other family members--in the form of this less-than-perfect story about my less-than-perfect life--will not turn out to be one of the casualties of my belated decision to speak the truth...
LPK
Dreamwidth
4.16.2019
