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Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores

Posted by timothy on from the for-make-benefit-glorious-nation dept.

bs0d3 writes "In the face of oil protests on their 20th independence day, Kazakhstan has blocked the internet and disabled cellphone towers in the city of Zhanaozen. As with previous internet blackouts, hactivist group telecomix is putting together free dial-up servers for people blacked out in this region."

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  1. Hard to do w/o a Hayes compatible modem.... by LVSlushdat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who still has a modem thats capable of dial-up????

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    1. Re:Hard to do w/o a Hayes compatible modem.... by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Lots of recent laptops still come with them - it's cheaper to include it than it is to remove it by changing the motherboard design.

      Also, the government action is self-defeating. Trying t get back at oil workers on a sit-down strike doesn't get those oil workers back to work - and oil workers are a specialized trade. Firing and blacklisting one group "en masse" just means you now have a smaller pool to hire from. Reagan could do it during the air traffic controllers' strike because there were others available to hire and you can use new technology to fill some of the gap - this isn't the case in an industry where technology has already taken up all the slack it can, and there's a world-wide shortage of oil workers.

  2. Hey by Galestar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At least in the Land of the Free we don't kill protesters. We just pepper spray them, beat them senseless, and arrest them only to let them go 24 hours later without charges.

    America's dead. Long live America.

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  3. Re:First Post by tqk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It adds more to the conversation that using buzzwords like "hacktivist".

    I happen to like that word. What's wrong with it?

    English is a bastard language, stealing from wherever and then mangling what it stole into whatever form it pleases. What's your problem?

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  4. Re:First Post by tqk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes the English language had diverse roots but came to a standardised form MANY moons ago ...

    Hogwash! As recently as Churchill ("... up with which, I will not put!"), it's been a lively language. Hell, all you need to do is put an Englishman in a room with a Scot, an Irish, an Aussie/Zealander, a Canuck, and a North and a South US-ian, and you'll be hard pressed to understand what anyone's saying. Extra points if the Englishman is Cockney.

    The French have been trying to set their language in stone for quite a while by law, and look how that's turned out.

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