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Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested
arcanumas writes to tell us that Greek authorities have raided the house of Antonis Tsipropoulos, administrator of the blog aggregation site Blogme.gr. His hard drive was seized and he was arrested. The impetus was a satiric website, not named in the stories, that apparently offended a Greek public figure (also unnamed). The site in question was not hosted by Tsipropoulos but was merely linked to by his RSS fed. From the first article: "The developing story coincides with the Internet Governance Forum being hosted in Athens this week, to be attended by Internet luminaries, entrepreneurs, and activists like Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, and Joi Ito and featuring panels on Openness and Freedom of Expression."
Its just the abstract entity that lives in the fortune's random number generator trying to get through to you in it's own special way ;)
But seriously, the human mind is a correlational machine. Think of a number, say, 711. Now look for it - you'll find it everywhere, twice a day on your clock, on a receipt, going to the corner-store, part of a license plate, and everywhere. It's not that you're looking for it it is that you notice when you see it and that therefore strengthen the action of subconsciously looking for it. As people mature, they tend to fill in the "connectedness" within their minds and are more able to start from one set of concepts and translate to another in a meaningful (if eccentric) way. This may shed some understanding on why teenagers seem to have such clear pictures in their beliefs - they haven't linked it all up yet.
Shh.
The Orthodox Church, which is the majority faith in Greece, has fond memories of the Byzantine Empire. While there were autocratic episodes (generally by those who turned away from the Church), the rule of the Empire was generally benign and the spiritual well-being of the people was much higher than now, when now much of Greece is experiencing an existential crisis from the empty values imported from the West.