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Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores
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."
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.
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?
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit