Russia in second attempt to ban LBGTQ media

Some of the people on my flist might know about the epetition last Decemeber (2011) against the proposed ban in Russia that would make all media (spoken, written, visual etc) about any LGBTQ, ranging from anti-discrimination services to nightclubs to romance novels illegal in Russia.

The bill was halted, however it has now been restarted and there seems to be every effort to push it through before there is time to get any organised form of protest against it organised.

I found out about it from this:

( text of email receieved from AllOut.org )

If you can help protest awful piece of legislation please do. Even if you can't take part in it that way I would ask that you think about passing the information in this post on so people at least know that this is happening.

Being as Livejournal are owned or at least part owned, by SUP, a Russian media company, I have contacted them asking for some reassurance that if the bill were to pass that Livejournal will not suddenly remove all LGBTQ content.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for a reply.

EDIT
Livejournal have replied, basically their servers are in the US so they will use US law regardless of the fact they are owned by SUP, a Russian media company.

( The reply is here under the cut )

Russia in second attempt to ban LBGTQ media

Some of the people on my flist might know about the epetition last Decemeber (2011) against the proposed ban in Russia that would make all media (spoken, written, visual etc) about any LGBTQ, ranging from anti-discrimination services to nightclubs to romance novels illegal in Russia.

The bill was halted, however it has now been restarted and there seems to be every effort to push it through before there is time to get any organised form of protest against it organised.

I found out about it from this:

( text of email receieved from AllOut.org )

If you can help protest awful piece of legislation please do. Even if you can't take part in it that way I would ask that you think about passing the information in this post on so people at least know that this is happening.

Being as Livejournal are owned or at least part owned, by SUP, a Russian media company, I have contacted them asking for some reassurance that if the bill were to pass that Livejournal will not suddenly remove all LGBTQ content.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for a reply.