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Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans
decora writes "If you visit Russian Wikipedia today you will be forgiven for thinking the entire site has crashed. It is not a crash, but a protest of the Russian State Duma's Bill 89417-6 According to Ria Novosti, the bill is 'proposing a unified digital blacklist of all websites containing pornography, drug ads and promoting suicide or extremist ideas.' Russian Wikipedia's main page has been replaced with a redacted logo and a protest text, part of which says 'The Wikipedia community protests against censorship, dangerous to free knowledge, open to all mankind. We ask you to support us in opposing this bill.' (translation by Google Translate)"
Is this a verb? Aren't shutters the things that go over windows in case of a storm? Didn't we just have a story about grammar?
If you visit Russian Wikipedia today you will be forgiven for thinking the entire site has crashed.. Russian Wikipedia's main page has been replaced with a redacted logo and a protest text, part of which says 'The Wikipedia community protests against censorship, dangerous to free knowledge, open to all mankind.
umm, i think that a reasonable person would see the protest message, and conclude that the site did not in fact crash. just sayin'
I wonder is this bill would also shut down all the Russian Bot nets. You now how many porn offers I get a day from Russia/Asia.
The Russian Internet has been under a very strong pressure to shut up from the political elite for a long time now (I got banned from a forum for the first time for criticizing Hutin in 2004 or thereabouts), but this law is like opening the proverbial floodgate of abuse.
Good luck fighting back. Democracy is a process, not a state -- unless the people are prepared to stand up for it, it goes.
In passing, hardly anyone would think the site has crashed -- those who use it often will read the notice, and those who don't will only go there because they've seen the news of the protest.
Maybe if they want to block all "dangerous" sites, they should block all the Russian sites.
And the internet becomes safe !!
FUCK RUSSIA !!
And the internet becomes safe !!
FUCK CHINA !!
Verbing nouns is something English speakers have been doing for a very long time.
It's not just "English speakers". Americans have been "verbing nouns" for a long time, too.
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# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)
# 2. DNSCrypt - for Linux, Mac, and Windows (from opendns)
# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)
We need an official Tor discussion forum.
I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:
** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion
** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2
Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to .onion sites.
I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?
Caution: some topics may be disturbing. You should be eighteen years or older. I recommend you disable images in your browser when viewing these two forums[1] and only enabling them if you are posting a message, but still be careful! Disable javascript and cookies, too.
If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:
HackBB: (directly)
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/
Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/
The tinyurl links are provided as a simple means of memorizing the hidden services via a link shortening service (tinyurl.com).
[1]: Because any content can be posted! Think 4chan, for example. onionforum2 does not appear to be heavily moderated so be aware and take precautions.
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https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown
https://github.com/opendns
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/
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If you thought it could hardly get more ludicrous, consider that Russian government attorneys had in the past claimed that the social group "government officials" is a legally protected minority similar to an ethnic or religious minority, meaning that criticizing the government can be considered a form of "extremism" akin to racism or religious discrimination, which in Russia is a criminal offense.
While nobody has so far been been in fact charged in Russian courts for criticizing the government (at least not officially, there are plenty of cases of being selectively prosecuted for other offenses where the real cause is political dissent), it could get even worse now as the government can simply claim they have full legislative grounds to block all political opposition websites as "extremist". Think of the amount of work it'd save the Russian government when they no longer have to even bother fabricating false evidence, inventing excuses, or even getting the courts involved for political suppression, but rather can do by the flick of a switch with no delays, avenues for appeal, or negative publicity that court proceedings bring.
The Russian government had long waited for an excuse to suppress political opposition online, which is currently the only reasonably politically free medium in Russia, and this looks to be their chance.
A bill promoting an internet blacklist sure seems like an extremist idea.
whoever proposed this bill should be redacted and solve the entire problem at once.
but I'm having trouble figuring out an adblock rule.
Is that some sort of genetically-engineered hybrid of the Chinese president and the Russian president?
You are right - I am not American.
You stop flying fighter aircraft with nukes across the West Coast where I live.
I always support the Russian people, government not so much.
So pornography, drug ads, extremist thought (what is extreme?) and promoting suicide are all on the same footing?
Well I guess no more coffee ads in Russia.
Am I the only one who read it like that, then thinking i was mistaken, only to find that my first mis-interpretation was actually correct if they pass this bill?
But that would mean that no American web sites would be accessible form Russia.
Get it right.
You don't hate the Chinese, or Russians.
It's the govt stupid!
Connect the dots, the resultant map, can't be much different than the psychopaths in the USA
Putin lost the election but won the count. He can suppress the printed media and television discussing the documented election fraud, but doesn't have a mechanism to suppress the Internet. THIS gives him that power. He's facing protests in Moscow, the election was as phoney as it gets, with him announcing a classic USSR win of 63% with the rest having 6%-17% of the count.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html?pagewanted=all
Dmitry Medvedev was never in power, as you can see by the South Ossentian invasion, Putin was the one making the announcements on that, yet in theory Medvedev was supposed to be in power. Then come the next election Medvedev steps down for Putin, saying he would make a much better president!
It's the same old story, KGB loses control, KGB reestablishes control. The difference this time is the Internet and why he's so keen to lock it down to prevent dissenting information being spread.
In the US, you edit Wikipedia.
In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia edits you!
No more extreme amateur bungee jumping
...and all I saw: "If you visit Russian Wikipedia today you will be forgiven for thinking". May I be blessed.
Add child to pornography, replace ads with sales, and promoting suicide with cyberbullying, and things sound eerily similar to what US lawmakers keep trying to push.
they make viruses and then pretend to "discover them" like what twice a month now? get those creeps off the internet.
"unified digital blacklist of all websites containing pornography, drug ads and promoting suicide or extremist ideas."
Wait, there are sites that DONT have any of the above?
Damn right. Fuck Russia and China. All they do is increase the cost of business with their endless scams and spams. We should have encouraged those pricks to stay communist because they sure as hell don't contribute dick to capitalism except a pain in the ass.
Does that mean they'll blacklist all of my ideas?
headlines have to be short , especially when you are trying to 'scoop' the entire rest of the internet news sites. unfortunately when your story sits in the slashdot queue for several hours, the entire internet "scoops you"
But do you badger Badger badgers anymore? Or have you ended your habit of harassing Wisconsin mustelids? Either way, have a Mushroom mushroom.
Why not include the link to the page with the actual text: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0
To put it bluntly the people in power hate the internet and want to shut it down. They want to roll back the world to the mid 20th century when a very few large corporations had total control over production and dissemination of information.
What the 99% need is a network that nobody controls. Freenet was a good idea but it is not usable by non-techies and it relies on existing infrastructure.
We need a mesh network that bypasses the existing infrastructure and where anyone can set up a node using cheap commercial hardware. Possibly the ability to set up clandestine nodes such throwing a solar powered "wifi grenade" on the roof of building or replace a power outlet with one that has a hidden transmitter.
Governments and corporations simply cannot be trusted to have power over information.
The statement "power corrupts" isn't right. Power itself is corruption and only inherently sociopathic individuals seek it.
Russian Minister Nikolay Nikiforov announced that discussion of this law in parliament will be postponed to the autumn. http://www.social-searcher.com/2012/07/10/russian-wiki-shuts-down-to-protest-internet-censorship-bill/