Alexander Smotrov. The new owner of the world-famous Internet service (known in Russia as the 'Live Journal ' or LJ), a Russian businessman Alexander Mamut said that censorship of blogs is not in his plans.
' There are always people who are overly concerned. I am not an enemy to himself, to buy and then go and spoil LiveJournal ', - Mamut said in an interview with British newspaper ' The Sunday Telegraph ', which was the first great speech of a businessman in the press after their acquisition in December 2007, all internet service LiveJournal.
' For some people, anxiety is a way of life, they live like. This is a typical error of bloggers that they are interested in intelligence ' - added Mamut.
According to him, censorship is not a lucrative and interesting work, and he has in any case, there are no resources for its implementation.
47- year-old businessman intends to retain the existing principles of political correctness, LiveJournal, but plans to use the internet service as a platform for other areas of its business, maintaining a balance between the interests of the community of bloggers and their business interests.
Mamut himself admitted that he had no personal page Learn. According to him, ' blogotvorchestvo ' - the fate of those who can not keep quiet or else can really tell us something interesting. The businessman did not consider themselves to any one of these categories.
' Sunday Telegraph ' said that unlike many other Russian oligarchs, Alexander Mamut has created its state is not on natural resources and the privatization of former state-owned enterprises, but mainly on the development of banking, insurance and publishing areas. He owns the company who publish and sell books, radio, magazine, a restaurant, he invests the money in the fashion and film.
At the same time on the London Stock Exchange traded shares owned steel company Mamut Oriel Resourses, and he owns a house in the London borough of Kensington and Mediterranean yacht. The magazine ' Forbes ' estimated his fortune at $ 950 million.
... - At this stage of life I'm really interested in doing business where there is an element of creativity. Of course, you can not run a business without money, but I'm in the business, not only because of money. I want to be involved in something emotionally, to satisfy his curiosity '.
In early December 2007 it was officially announced that the Russian company owned by Mamut ' soup ', which until this year ran a Russian-language segment of LiveJournal, for an undisclosed amount purchased from the American company Six Apart all Internet service.
' SOUP ' specially created company registered in the U.S. LiveJournal, Inc. That will manage the service LiveJournal worldwide, according to a press release. The company is based in San Francisco and regulated by U.S. law.
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