Livejournal Clearly Still Doesn't Get It With Regards to Privacy

[attackfish]

Remember how a little while back, Livejournal enabled the crossposting of comments to facebook and twitter without the journal entry poster's consent? and how the hew and cry from their customer base (which would be us) caused them to change it so that users could only cross-post comments on public entries?

Well, Livejournal has gone back on its word. Now anyone who has opted into Cyrillic services can cross-post comments on anyone's (even someone who has not opted in) f-locked entries.  The solution Livejournal proposed before was not satisfying, but acceptable.  This smacks of deceit and manipulation on the part of the Livejournal business administration.  If you disagree with this move on the part of the administration (which also smacks of ethnic prejudice) please comment on the above linked post.

Thought I'd warn you all, this mess has unfortunately not gone away.

Comments

[avocado-love.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I think the option for now will have to be to opt out of Cryillic services. I was never opted in, so it's not a problem for me... but then again, I don't have any Russian-speaking friends. I could imagine this will be a big problem for a lot of people.

[lothy.livejournal.com]

I have a question I haven't seen asked... I want to know whether LJ *plans* to turn it off in Cyrillic services. I don't know how those services work, but if they can put different rules in place then it's clearly not just a matter of changing the language settings! So is it possible that they plan to change it on Cyrillic services but it'll take extra time and they decided not to wait in going live with the rest of the changes?

[dr-abraxas.livejournal.com]

this is just a horrible, misguided attempt to appear "current". they think everyone's doing the facebook/twitter thing without realize a lot of us are here 'cause we don't want anything to do with those places. and sweeping it under another area of LJ is just, I donno, smoke-screen and denial.