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Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics
An anonymous reader writes in with news about Russias censorship of internet sites critical of President Vladimir Putin. "Russia blocked access to the internet sites of prominent Kremlin foes Alexei Navalny and Garry Kasparov on Thursday under a new law critics say is designed to silence dissent in President Vladimir Putin's third term. The prosecutor general's office ordered Russian internet providers to block Navalny's blog, chess champion and Putin critic Kasparov's internet newspaper and two other sites, grani.ru and ej.ru, state regulator Roskomnadzor said. The move was the latest evidence of what government opponents see as a crackdown on independent media and particularly the internet, a platform for dissenting views in a nation where state channels dominate the airwaves. Ej.ru editor Alexander Ryklin called it 'monstrous' and a 'direct violation of all the principles of freedom of speech,' More at EFF, and in earlier stories at the The Huffington Post, and Deutsche Welle, which notes, 'This year's report by Reporters Without Borders on World Day against Cyber Censorship condemns Russia as one of the "Enemies of the Internet." "Russia has adopted dangerous legislation governing the flow of news and information and freedom of expression online," it concludes.'"
Until we stop living in a mass surviellence state, this all rings hollow.
Unlike Russia, we don't need to ban critics. We can just stalk and harrass them, until then ruin their lifes.
Sadly, Russia is turning more and more to Soviet ways. Putin was even rehabilitating Stalin.
Putin Reportedly Claims the Dissolution of the Soviet Union May Have Been Illegal
This may not end well.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
It's nice that we've had 25 year break from facing global thermonuclear war, but Russia is an expansionist aggressive nation again. Mutually assured destruction may not work this time if Putin would rather die and take the rest of the world out with him rather then relinquish power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_hearts_and_minds
There a topic that isn't about America? Well can't have that! Spin it to be about America! Redirect all topics to be on America, particularly whining about America!
Seriously, this American-centric bitching is really annoying. People need to knock it off. This is about Russia. That things are happening in America doesn't mean things aren't happening elsewhere. It also doesn't mean those things aren't of interest to the wider world. What is happening in Russia right now is of quite a bit of interest not just to Russians, but to Ukrainians, and to the whole of Europe. Also some people from the US might like to know too because hey, it is nice to be informed about the wider world.
So quit. Quit trying to make every thread about the US. There are lots and lots of those on Slashdot. When something comes up on a foreign country, let it be on that topic. The topic at hand is Russian media/internet censorship not NSA spying. That one is a little further down the front page.
Rules against criticizing the government makes a political campaign all but impossible for anyone but the incumbent. In other words, they are now a dictatorship. Hopefully the Russian people won't give up their freedoms so easily, and push back.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
In Soviet Russia, Internet blocks you!
I wonder if blocking this kind of stuff is self defeating. It sort of signals what you should be looking at. If I saw that The Huffington Post was blocked, it would make me curious and I would find a way to read The Huffington Post.
Perhaps Edward Snowden can infiltrate their cyber operations and get these sites unblocked. Obviously that's why he went to Russia. To prevent them getting as bad as the USA. Oh, wait... the USA isn't blocking sites, is it?
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Putin blocks everything that can hurt his regime. Especially now, when one mentally unstable dictator wont to occupy Ukraine and others country's to restore Soviet Union. Also, he knows, that for his unjustified act of aggression West will destroy him and all Russia like Soviet Union once.
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Always funny how Slashdot uses the "silenced person" icon.
Meanwhile, they have a site where the "anonymous coward" can log in to a duplicate account and mod posts down against a commenter they don't agree with until that commenter is literally slienced beyond one or two pre-modded -1 comments a day.
The downvotes are fairly predictable: anyone who doesn't toe the scientism line or who doesn't agree with the fundamentalist atheist dogma is usually first to be mass downvoted. Often a simple declarative sentence is all it takes to rile up some greasy neckbeard asshole, who will dump all five mod points into retaliating because greasy neckbeard assholes take declarative statements as a personal insult.
If you reply, that just gives their duplicate account another three-point shot at your "karma," which is simply a measure of how well you agree with the Slashdot party line. All the greasy neckbeard asshole wants is grist for his logic mill so he can "disprove" everything you say by downvoting it and labeling it.
So essentially, Slashdot is simply a machine to enforce groupthink. Nobody is allowed to color outside the lines without being chased away by the downvotes. It's very much like Boingboing, which is a site devoted to enforcing Cory Doctorow's personal prejudices and cowardly bigotry through his proxy mods.
I propose this be fixed before you spend any more time on your big beta project.
tl;dr Slashdot's moderation system does nothing but force commenters to say the "right thing(tm)"
As neighbor of Russia, I will say that she was always evil. Prior to this, she just didn't want to show his true face, and you didn't want to take a closer look.
"Must crush capitalism! Grrrr!"
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Let's keep in mind that it is US companies that sell the software to handle massive site blocking like this.
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In Mother Russia internet Putin's you.
, but the US gov't also tightly controls US society - so there is nothing to be smug about. Hypocrisy is an inconsistency between two things - the response when someone else does something, and when we do the same thing - the only way you can tell hypocrisy is to compare these two things. So if you only ever look at one thing at a time - and declare any comparison is 'off-topic' - then you will never notice any double standard.
Moderated Usenet
Russians wants to secure their energy business. It worked out for other companies, so why not for them?
It's a sad world.
Commenting here is great, but Putin does not read Slashdot. Write to your country's Russian ambassador, tell him what you think. OK: what you say will be ignored, but if 10,000 of you write - then Putin may hear of it ... maybe no more than 2 lines at the bottom of some report, but that is better than nothing.
Just to make it easier for you: the UK Russian embassy contact page (I would suggest Russia-UK relations queries); the USA Russian embassy contact page, post & 'phone only, unless someone can dig better than I can. Also feel free to reply to this comment with contact info for the Russian embassy in your country.
If you say nothing, then you will be ignored. Saying something cannot be worse than that !
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http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=11391
censorship is a weapon, but it's primarily a weakness. censoring popular dissidents is like getting more credit cards to pay off past credit card debt. no one PLANS to do it, so it's not a very good plan.
this is going to sound douchey, but I take solace in the fact that THIS is how autocratic bowers that pee attempt to handle the internet. Russian politics will continue to gain global publicity with these tactics, and shame on us non-Russians for gawking; domestically, this approach will hasten the transition that those poor, deluded, rich, oft-shirtless oligarchical goofs think they can (snicker) avoid.
Petty power play by Puting to prevent protest and put plaintive political people in a perpetual position of powerlessness.
I have been reading a lot about the turmoil going on in Ukraine, from both English and Russian language sources. I still don't get it why Putin invaded Ukraine. I get it that returning Crimea back to the mother Russia will strike the chord with the Russian nationalists. One thing is certain that his popularity is hitting another high right now, so he and the rest of his ruling elite can sail through the next round of elections. But could Putin and other politicians in Russia be so shirt sighted that they would risk labeling Russia and starting the next Cold War for this simplistic short term goal? It's quite shocking to think that today in 21st century, a European country is invaded by its neighbor, and on on quite dubious grounds. Sure, I don't think any really costly sanctions will be applied to Russia again, but I think from now on Russia will simply be tolerated because other countries still have to do business with it. No one will harbor any illusions about Putin's regime from now on.
In Soviet Russia, Putin blocks internet...
Where's the joke?
The U.K Government just blocks sites that daily mail readers don't like.
You know what's even more annoying? People that bitch about people bitching about other people bitching.
i propose we critic putin (putain in french) so the russians don't have to see all this bitching....
They just don't cover anything.
Whats the difference?
Russians don't care about freedom.
But Americans do.
When neither one has freedom, guess who is going to be doing all the bitching?
Kremlin also pays a bunch of shills to comment on forums it can't control, such as Youtube, Facebook, Western news sites, and the like. Some of which you can witness in the comments to this news.
That's the thing, you don't know. Because Putin controls the statisticians who produce this rating. If they don't come up with the right one, they could lose their jobs, or worse.
Obviously, this kind of thought-control, especially when combined with state capitalism/oligarchy/kleptocracy, is what we in the west would call Fascist. It is perhaps an interesting real-life demonstration of newspeak that much of Putin's fervor, at least for public consumption, is directed *against* Fascists in Ukraine. For him, the f-word means neo-nazi, or perhaps just ultra-nationalist for any nation other than greater Russia. It's really weird and mindbending, but you can find a lot of his undiluted propaganda on the web (rt.com, plenty in youtube, and planted comments on just about any relevant news article in any media...)
I find this fascists calling each other fascists thing quite interesting, but it seems to depend on a highly prepared political environment. The ex-USSR population seems to be uniquely primed to equate fascist=nazi, with all the baggage of WW2 (including the meme that the hard part was fought in Russia, not western europe, and that the cold war was essentially a continuation of WW2, with nazi-derived forces still conspiring against The Fatherland.) I imagine that works best for the older generation, but surely any Russian under 30 must look at the internet and see something closer to the truth...
Putin will follow the old Soviet pattern and invade very shortly after being invited following the bogus referendum result is announced.
Just like the Soviets did in Hungry 1955, Czechoslovakia 1968 Afghanistan in 1979 and Georgia in 2008
I agree that Nationalism is toxic.
USSR lost the cold war. US won. Therefore USSR states should join the US, first as territories, and then when the population of each is ready, they vote for statehood.
English is clearly the best universal language, and US culture is by default the culture of the world.
Welcome comrade to you and your brothers. Welcome to the non-national United States! ....
Wait, you're not eager to join us? Prepare to be assimilated, resistance is futile!
I'm in Russia and grani.ru and ej.ru load perfectly fine for me. So what was the issue again?
Putin Silences YOU!
Look at http://free.tibet/
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20th-century dictators still exist.
They cannot coexist democracies.
Are you complaining about Big Mother or Brother Russia?
Stop confusing me!
navalny must be sent to jail in 2009 with his friend, belykh for bribery. only shipov was arrested, and after that navalny deciced to 'fight corrupton'. he is just a shameless liar from west ukraine, and i think it's time for him to return back to his nazi friends.
and grown in numbers during communist ukrainization.
i know ukrozombi cannot stop lying, but there are tons of documents about ukrainization. sorry.