Oh, LiveJournal. You never cease to amaze.

Anyone not heard about LJ's latest privacy fuckery, in which people can easily and accidentally crosspost all LJ comments they make to Facebook and Twitter — including when they comment on a locked post? Not malicious cut'n'paste fairies, but deliberately enabling purely accidental cut'n'paste fairies?

No? Good. It's not going to get any better — this will not be backed out and the majority owner of SUP has a share in Facebook and is angling for a share in Twitter.

On Web 2.0, step 2 is "brutally violate your users' privacy as hard as possible." Step 2.5 is say "hey baby, I'm real sorry" and then do it again. You're not the customer, you're the hamburger.

I'm sure that anyone who continues in employment with LJ — going into work every day to do things that they know will endanger people's personal safety, and showing up again the next day to do it more, and showing up again the next day to do it more — does in fact have excellent and obvious justification to continue. So that's all right, then. Suggestion: a drive to find less morally reprehensible jobs for the remaining LJ staff members.

p.s.: moving a huge journal to DW is very easy and getting easier. I know. DW might go bad in the future too, but for now I consider it the most sustainably-constructed LJ clone. (You can enable access to your DW locked posts for your LJ friends, too.) Lots of account codes at dw_codesharing, and I still have six here.

p.p.s.: if you read this and promptly want to post geeky self-righteousness about your superior privacy management skills and how anyone getting their life fucked up by this must have done it to themselves, just shut the fuck up. Really.

Update: Not that the DreamWidth staff are entirely clueful. Read this, particularly to the last paragraph.