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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)"
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.
Verbing nouns is something English speakers have been doing for a very long time.
Bill - aka taniwha
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Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
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.
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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# 2. DNSCrypt for Linux, Windows, Mac (from opendns.com)
"In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It does not require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between our customers and our DNS servers in our data centers. We know that claims alone do not work in the security world, however, so we have opened up the source to our DNSCrypt code base and it is available on GitHub"
https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/
- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/
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/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/
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You stop flying fighter aircraft with nukes across the West Coast where I live.
I always support the Russian people, government not so much.
what is extreme?
Along with "obscene," everything that the government doesn't like.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
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
...and all I saw: "If you visit Russian Wikipedia today you will be forgiven for thinking". May I be blessed.
Has been since 1826: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shutter
sic transit gloria mundi
Appears to exist in American English at least.
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.
It's a well established gerund - like "bridge" that serves its purpose. Unlike such idiocy as "burglarize" (burgle already exists), even most -ized words coined by the inarticulate.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
No, it's a simple syllable transposition "Putin - (k)hui" (Russian for "Putin is a dick") -> "(K)Hutin - pui".
Does that mean they'll blacklist all of my ideas?
Some people don't read messages, as every current and former tech support person can no doubt attest.
Can I mod something +1 Scary if it's true but I wish it weren't?
Here in México we are supposed not to be so repressive and there are plans to promote a few laws against gov criticism. Most likely to be approbed in the next months if not a lot of protests are made against it.
I'm positive, don't belive me look at my karma
And when they got there discovered that while things are better, they are headed much the same way...
Russia is just ahead of the US and UK in controlling the minds and lives of their "citizens" thats all. Sadly for me, Canada is rushing to get ahead under our current PM.
"The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
Half the letters are coming out backwards and there's random digits in the middle of words. Looks like it crashed to me.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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"
Didn't we just have a story about grammar?
Because that should have fixed everything...
Is this a verb?
do you never google?
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
Ya, why didn't he "Google" that?
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
>ambitious and ethical Russian You mean like yourself? "Bottom feeders", really? Hate to break your heart but you should probably take a class on ethics or something.
Correct. As any Slashdotter knows, no current of former tech support person has ever RTFA.
Well, there is a message today. Here is the provided English translation: "Wikipedia in Russian will be closed on 10th of July because of Russian parliament’s debating of amendments to the law About information that could create real censorship of the internet — a blacklisting and filtering of internet sites. Supporters of the law’s proposition say that it is aimed only at widely prohibited content such as child pornography and information like this, but conditions for determining the content falls under this law will create a thing like the great Chinese firewall. The existing Russian law’s practice shows the high possibility of the worst scenatio, in which access to Wikipedia soon will be closed in all country. On July 11 will be held the second reading of the law in the State Duma. The law will come into force after the third reading, which date isn’t set yet."
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/
Is this a verb?
Yes.
shutÂterâ â/ËÊfÊOEtÉ(TM)r/ Show Spelled[shuht-er] Show IPA
noun
1. a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
2. a movable cover, slide, etc., for an opening.
3. a person or thing that shuts.
4. Photography . a mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.
verb
5. to close or provide with shutters: She shuttered the windows.
6. to close (a store or business operations) for the day or permanently.
Free Martian Whores!
Crap, I should have previewed, the link to reference.com broke.
Free Martian Whores!
I have a bunch of friends in Russia who are strongly against Putin and were observers from the opposition in both parliament and presidential elections. They have all said that, from their personal observations, the parliament elections had a lot of fraud in them, but presidential ones, not so much - all of them agree that, even accounted for all the irregularities, Putin would have got the 50%+1 he needed to be elected in the first round even with a completely fair vote count.