Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans 84
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)"
Re:"shutters"? (Score:5, Insightful)
Verbing nouns is something English speakers have been doing for a very long time.
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Not Just English Speakers. (Score:5, Funny)
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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Re:Not Just English Speakers. (Score:4, Funny)
Badgering Badger badgers (Score:2)
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Ya, why didn't he "Google" that?
Re:"shutters"? (Score:5, Informative)
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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.
"shuts down" -- too many words (Score:2)
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"
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Didn't we just have a story about grammar?
Because that should have fixed everything...
Is this a verb?
do you never google?
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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.
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Crap, I should have previewed, the link to reference.com broke.
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Some people don't read messages, as every current and former tech support person can no doubt attest.
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Half the letters are coming out backwards and there's random digits in the middle of words. Looks like it crashed to me.
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Bot Nets (Score:5, Funny)
Good luck (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
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(I got banned from a forum for the first time for criticizing Hutin in 2004 or thereabouts)
I've gotten banned from American websites countless times for silly things. Guess that means The American Internet has been under a very strong pressure to shut up from the political elite for a long time now
Re:Good luck (Score:5, Insightful)
What's with the snarks? What's so funny?
http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was.html [blogspot.com]
http://w2.eff.org/Activism/russian_coup_netuse.article [eff.org]
Looking at the above, and then looking at this "discussion", I have one word for all of you: regression.
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The Russian Internet has been under a very strong pressure to shut up from the political elite for a long time now
Exactly. They are creating a nyet-net.
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That's called PravdaNet.
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Not really, hence the emphasis on the first time I recall it happening. The removal of even mildly anti-government stuff began in the early 2000s, but it didn't end there. Later on quite a few sites in the .ru TLD were told first to remove anti-government discussions and news, then raided, then finally forced to move away from the runet altogether.
There are reports that on many occasions the FSB (Federal Security Service) has requested that ISPs and sites provide information on users. Things have gotten pa
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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.
Did Putin ban you personally on that forum, or was it someone from the Russian political elite?
If not, that's hardly a good example of the oppression - forum bans because of the political squabbles happen in the USA all the time.
I have an idea (Score:3)
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Tor Discussion Forums + DNSCrypt (Score:5, Informative)
# In this post:
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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 [tinyurl.com]
** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2 [tinyurl.com]
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/ [clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion]
Onion Forum 2.0: (directly)
http://65bgvta7yos3sce5.onion/ [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/ [opendns.com]
- Download the right package for your Linux distribution:
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/16/tales-from-the-dnscrypt-linux-rising/ [opendns.com]
https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.markdown [github.com]
https://github.com/opendns [github.com]
https://blog.opendns.com/2012/05/08/dnscrypt-for-windows-has-arrived/ [opendns.com]
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dnscrypt-encrypts-your-dns-traffic-because-theres-always-someone-out-to-get-you/ [techcrunch.com]
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSCrypt-a-tool-to-encrypt-all-DNS-traffic-1392283.html [h-online.com]
http://blog.opendns.com/2012/02/06/dnscrypt-hackers-wanted/ [opendns.com]
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/dnscrypt-930439/ [linuxquestions.org]
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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 suppport you IF . . . (Score:1)
You stop flying fighter aircraft with nukes across the West Coast where I live.
I always support the Russian people, government not so much.
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WTF are you talking about?
As someone with a degree in Russian studies, I can tell ya that Russians love semantic cop-outs.
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You stop flying fighter aircraft with nukes across the West Coast where I live.
As a Russian, I fully support that. Flying those aircraft is expensive and ultimately pointless (both they and their load is easy to intercept).
Nuclear subs with ICBMs, now, are a whole different kettle of fish (how many do you think are close to West Coast right now?). ~
No more coffee ads (Score:1)
Well I guess no more coffee ads in Russia.
Re:No more coffee ads (Score:5, Insightful)
what is extreme?
Along with "obscene," everything that the government doesn't like.
Russian State Duma the people (Score:1)
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
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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.
I just got up from sleep (Score:3, Funny)
hmmm (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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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.
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I'm pretty extreme (Score:2)
Link? (Score:1)
The ultimate solution - worldwide ad-hoc network (Score:1)
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 com
Nikolay Nikiforov postponed the Law (Score:1)