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I have absolutely what this takeover means for us. I'm confused, moreso than a lot of other people. But I just looked up SUP to see what I could find and I have some links, if you're interested.

- The post in news, for those who have NO idea what I'm talking about when I say LJ's been bought out.
- SUP's website
- Brad's view of the partnership between Six Apart and LJ from November 2006
- A (Russian?) blogger's view of the partnership from 2006
- Another blog about it from 2006
- dolboeb - A guy who works for SUP, I believe. A CEO?
- Wiki on the guy who founded SUP, Andrew Paulson
- Mention of the LJ/SUP partnership (SUP bought the Russian part of LJ last year) and the attempt to change Russia's image in the US
- Last year's post about the LJ/SUP partnership from news
- Six Apart news release on the matter

I don't know if these links will help anyone but there's what I could find in two pages of Yahoo-ing.

I think what I kind of get from all this is that everything that's happened in the past eight months has been put in a new perspective. I don't know what to think right now about it and I have no idea if I think of the past eight months (re: adult flagging, adult content under scrutiny, the deletions, etc, etc) in a better or worse light. It'll all depend on what the next few days bring, obvs.

If anyone has any other information or POVs to bring up or persuasive arguments one way or the other, I'd LOVE to hear them. All this stuff confuses me so if you can make it clearer or give me other ways to look at it, please share them.