[info]msilverstar in [info]07refugees

Recent history of Russia online

Via [info]stewardess: Kremlin Seeks To Extend Its Reach in Cyberspace - says that the Russian government is encouraging pro-government sites and blogs, trying to drown out opposition voices.

And when the entire country of Estonia was subjected to a Denial-Of-Service attack, well, they came from Russian IP addresses.

I'm sure there are other examples, anyone?

(ETA: fixed first link, other useful links in comments)
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Posted on Dec. 2nd, 2007 at 08:29 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]greenwitch

(psst -- both of those are to the "Wired" article)
Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 05:08 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]msilverstar

fixed, thank you

first one should be: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/27/AR2007102701384_pf.html
Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 05:57 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]blktauna

Moar:

http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1071

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/21/russia-the-second-blog-war/

Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 05:26 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]msilverstar

Wow, back in 2006...
Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 05:58 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]blktauna

and another:

http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/tag/sup

Samples of some complaints about SUP.
Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 05:50 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]stewardess

Interesting. It looks like LJ users will be advertised to death before they get censored into oblivion.
Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 09:50 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]blktauna

I think the adverts are worse.
Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 09:55 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]valady

Oh yeah this is such a better move for LJ...total fail

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2006/11/72060

Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 06:24 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]lady81bird

One of the most popular bestsellers in Russia at the moment describes a world of 2018, when a big war has ended, Russia has finally defeated the US and now owns all of Europe and Gronland. The troublesome Balts (aka Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanins) have finally been either deported or killed. Plus, Russia is a monarchy again and its monarch is named Vladimir. All is well in the Russian Empire.
Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2007 03:45 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]ex_alchemy547

http://community.livejournal.com/sup_ru/
Go over some of the comments in Babelfish and you'll see that this is no BS. They're really bad news. One member actually wished cancer on them. LOL.
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 08:02 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]haruka

Here's a Forbe's article about the sale of LJ to Russia.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2007 10:10 pm (UTC) | | Reply