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Russian Police Seize Kasparov
An anonymous reader writes "Russian police seized Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess champion, for staging a political rally against Vladimir Putin. IBM's Deep Blue computer was the first to beat a world champion when it defeated Kasparov, who is one of the strongest players in history." He's also been a giant critic of the Russian administration which is increasingly restricting free speech.
Interesting choice of words, "against Putin."
I didn't RTFA but have a passing familiarity with the context in Russia...
One might have said, instead, "in opposition to", or "promoting a party which is an alternative to". But democracy is such a quaint concept these days - as Reichsleiter Gonzales might say. (Even the recent ouster of Australia's pygmy fascist Howard does not restore confidence, since that public already elected Howard twice, the second time unforgivably.)
you had me at #!
Also, the authour is anonymous; what does it matter? Without a name, it matters little what the intent is. You don't even know whether the other reply to your post is the same guy! Despite my comments about punishment above (a disguised critique of the fact that funny can't at least cancel down-mods), there's no need to punish such people. If your find it funny, mod it accordingly! If they don't, then your mod takes on an ironic quality.
Wikileaks, no DNS
Oops, didn't see the subject line of your post, sorry for the other reply...
But yeah, I feel the need to try and make the more egregious trolls both look and feel like the degenerate fools they are. In my opinion half the reason things are look as dark as they do in the world (specifically my little corner of it, the US) is that people like the troll I'm setting flame to get away with pronouncing such utter bullshit without opposition. Oh, I know that ignoring them is a type of opposition, but when people hear (or read) such bile without someone else stepping in and pointing out how foolish it is, well, then that thought now has a spot in your head where it floats around without being solidly opposed. I just can't let memes like that go around programming people without trying to 'debug' it somewhat.