You certainly have a point, though if you look again you'll see that I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. I said I don't buy it--yet. I'd like something a little more like confirmation first. The first article is just reporting speculation, and the second link elaborates to say that the bloggers are not accusing "the government," they're accusing Nashi. Which...is also what I said. To what degree Nashi is an arm of the government is debatable to some extent. They certainly aren't official, but they think Putin is the Second Coming, so that may not matter. They'd be the perfect way of doing something unofficially--load them up with the idea that there are Bad People on LJ and let 'em rip. Though, when 4.5 million of your citizens use LJ, you gotta figure a decent percentage of Nashi would, too. ::shrug:: There are lots of possibilities.