Wave of hatred of Sup washes over LiveJournal

After the announcement that the Sup.ru project had purchased the licence from Six Apart to support the Russian-language part of LiveJournal.com, radical blogger Mithgol announced the closure of its LiveJournal blog and the switch to FIDO because it has no wish "to work for hooknose jews".

Other users have set up a number of hate-communities (no_sup, anti_sup, new_albanians and others). Protest measures include flash mobs, letters of complaint to Brad-the-Founder (Fitzpatrick) and other means. Sup representatives have already explained that there will be neither a physical nor a judicial transfer of blogs to Russia.

However, at the same time Sup CBO Anton Nosik remarked in his personal blog that the percentage of "bastard protestors" can be disregarded when compared with the total volume of Russian-language LJ bloggers (698,000). After this it was not only the nationalists that joined the protest. According to the results of a poll, in which over 8,000 LJ users took part, the majority (51%) view the Sup – Six Apart deal negatively, with only 9% rating it positively (the rest remaining undecided). It is clear that Sup PR managers are responsible for such a negative reaction; they boasted much about the deal, but failed to show any kind of benefit for the simple users.