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Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media
reporter writes "According to a disturbing report just published by Bloomberg, 'As the Kremlin gears up for the election of Putin's successor next March, Soviet-style controls are being extended to online news after a presidential decree last month set up a new agency to supervise both mass media and the Web.' However, unless the Kremlin pursues Chinese-style/Turkish-style blocking of the Internet-Protocol addresses of web sites like 'The Economist', even the Kremlin cannot control the online media. If Putin pulled the plug on an anti-Putin web site inside Russia, the anti-Putin web site could simply be migrated offshore to a server in, say, the United States."
Oh never mind!
In America, you spam computers In Soviet Russia, computers spam you!
the Russians are doing something Bush can get behind and support.
Ah yes...the infallible Bush gut instinct at work again.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
You know, I strongly suspect that goat entrails are more reliable at divining truth than Bush's entrails.
You think that's bad, wait until the US gets full control over the DNS root.
OMFG, that will be terrible! I bet the US will SHUT DOWN SLASHDOT. Now excuse me while I go look at prego-nazi-porn in one window while writing about how much of a TERRORIST GWB is.
Yeah, I am sure the US getting the keys to DNS root will be a whole hell of a lot worse then the Russian Federation clamping on the last vestiges of free media in the Russian state. Everyone knows that the US eats more babies the North Korea, China, and Russia... COMBINED.
No, I think he didn't want anyone from the Russian government visiting him. They are very aggressive when people accuse them of murdering jour :ALKFJH:LKASHFKJHFDASJ ^[NO CARRIER]
Some people encrypt by using rot-13 twice. I prefer the more secure method of using rot-1 a total of twenty six times.
I'm willing to set up an experiment to see whether that's true.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
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