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Organized Online, Students Storm Gov't. Buildings In Moldova
An anonymous reader writes "Reacting to allegedly fraudulent election procedures, students are storming the presidency and parliament of the small eastern European country of Moldova. It is reported that they used Twitter to organize. Currently twitter and blogs are being used to spread word of what is happening since all national news websites have been blocked. If the 1989 Romanian revolution was the first to be televised, is this the first to be led by twitter and social networks?" Jamie points out this interesting presentation (from March 2008) by Ethan Zuckerman about the realities of online activism, including how governments try to constrain it.
People use communication tools available to them to organize and carry out tactics?
Oh, it's because it's twitter it's a novelty.
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pitty any future historian who will have to dig thru all the LOLs to follow historical events
all hale to the uninformed ideas that sounded good at the time.
I must not be using the same definition of "chickenshit" as you. Chickenshits usually don't storm government buildings.
I must officially be an old, curmudgeonly luddite now, since I didn't know what the Fail Whale was before today.
Or wait, since we like bashing social networky things here, does that make me cool? I can't tell.
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Once you have stopped/destroyed "the machine", what will replace it?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Ultimate solution to this, and a handful of other problems:
1. Buy a geographical atlas, with no countries marked at all,
2. Write "world" on it,
3. Tell everyone else to do the same.
"russian peacekeepers". mwahaha.
really, cut that crap. being occupied by russia for a good 50 years, and seeing what happens at it's borders after the period (georgia, anybody ?) we know quite well what their peacekeeping means.
we also have seen the financing from russia working to keep up such local "movements". stop. we don't want to be occupied by you anymore, we don't want to be deported to siberia, we don't want to suffer from your atrocities anymore. try to understand that, work hard, and maybe, maybe in 50 years you will be respected by your neighbours, as opposed to fear and hatred.
Rich
The Soviet Union was crushed by bad economic policies; everything else was a consequence, not a trigger. The collapse began before fax machines or copiers became common.
"Russian peacekeepers"....
Russia's presence in that area makes the problem persist. The reasons they're there is not to keep peace, but to maintain a conflict.
They need it because it is to their benefit to keep some troops here and there, "just in case".
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There are several ways in which they could cheat, doing this before or after the elections.
An observer can only see the same person walk in and out into _the same_ office to vote several times, or see a person using several voting ballots.
What an observat can't see:
- the same person voting in different voting offices
- how people were prevented from entering the country in the pre-election period
- how voting offices were not set-up in some parts of the country
- how someone shows up and uses the identity of a dead person using fake documents
The opposition promised they will bring evidence that proves that the elections were tricked. If that is true, then we have a case.
I myself am against violence and I hope no one will die in the riots; I realize that the crowd can be easily manipulated.
Stalin said it a long time ago - it doesn't matter how people vote, it only matters who does the counting.
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