Saturday, August 3, 2013
Russia and Privacy Laws - 1,700 Russian websites on strike
1,700 Russian websites on strike against new anti-piracy law
Published: Aug 1, 2013, 06:07 PM
Over 1,700 websites in the Russian internet have joined an online strike against the new anti-piracy legislation, which came into force on Thursday, allowing pre-trial blocking of web-pages.
The content of the websites, taking part in the action, was unavailable to the users for the day.
Their front pages were blanked, only containing messages denouncing the law and links to the petition demanding to call off the legislation.
All of your favorite websites, including Zaycev.net, may also be BLOCKED, the text on the Zaycev.net music website front page said.
Lurkmore.to, popular online encyclopedia focused on Internet subcultures, folklore and memes, informed that its closed on the decision of Roskomnadzor (Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications).
"Thats roughly how Roskomnadzor will act after being armed with the new law. One may try to protest and sign petitions or just enjoy the ride, the message explained.
Russias biggest e-mail service, Mail.ru, wasnt closed on the day, but also spoke out against the law. The website placed a banner on its main page, leading to a blog post, which described its views on the issue.
And now the anti-piracy law comes into force. Today, we live in an online reality where every user became an information middleman and any page can be shut down for posting a link on the pirated content, a statement by Mail.ru said.
Meanwhile, the countrys most visited websites Yandex and Rambler search engines, Russian versions of Google, Livejournal and Wikipedia as well as the largest social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki ignored the strike, leaving the anti-piracy law without a comment.
The fresh anti-piracy law faced a lot of criticism when it was developed and discussed by legislators. The critics noted that it was strange that it only protected movies and TV series and that out-of court blocking can be easily used for unfair competition and even political censorship.
The unregistered Pirate Party of Russia recently held a street rally against the law and called upon its supporters to reply with a Black August not go to the movies and not buy any legal content for a month.
The Roskomsvoboda (Russian Freedom Committee) website has claimed that it had collected 100,000 signatures in favor of repealing the law.
This would allow the petition to become a legislative initiative that should be duly considered by the parliament, but only if the signatures were collected through a specially designed web-site Russian Public Initiative (ROI.Ru).
A similar petition posted on the ROI.ru site gathered over 67,000 signatures in less than a month but is still short from the required 100,000 figure.
Source: http://rt.com/news/piracy-law-internet-strike-912/
Published: Aug 1, 2013, 06:07 PM
Over 1,700 websites in the Russian internet have joined an online strike against the new anti-piracy legislation, which came into force on Thursday, allowing pre-trial blocking of web-pages.
The content of the websites, taking part in the action, was unavailable to the users for the day.
Their front pages were blanked, only containing messages denouncing the law and links to the petition demanding to call off the legislation.
All of your favorite websites, including Zaycev.net, may also be BLOCKED, the text on the Zaycev.net music website front page said.
Lurkmore.to, popular online encyclopedia focused on Internet subcultures, folklore and memes, informed that its closed on the decision of Roskomnadzor (Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications).
"Thats roughly how Roskomnadzor will act after being armed with the new law. One may try to protest and sign petitions or just enjoy the ride, the message explained.
Russias biggest e-mail service, Mail.ru, wasnt closed on the day, but also spoke out against the law. The website placed a banner on its main page, leading to a blog post, which described its views on the issue.
And now the anti-piracy law comes into force. Today, we live in an online reality where every user became an information middleman and any page can be shut down for posting a link on the pirated content, a statement by Mail.ru said.
Meanwhile, the countrys most visited websites Yandex and Rambler search engines, Russian versions of Google, Livejournal and Wikipedia as well as the largest social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki ignored the strike, leaving the anti-piracy law without a comment.
The fresh anti-piracy law faced a lot of criticism when it was developed and discussed by legislators. The critics noted that it was strange that it only protected movies and TV series and that out-of court blocking can be easily used for unfair competition and even political censorship.
The unregistered Pirate Party of Russia recently held a street rally against the law and called upon its supporters to reply with a Black August not go to the movies and not buy any legal content for a month.
The Roskomsvoboda (Russian Freedom Committee) website has claimed that it had collected 100,000 signatures in favor of repealing the law.
This would allow the petition to become a legislative initiative that should be duly considered by the parliament, but only if the signatures were collected through a specially designed web-site Russian Public Initiative (ROI.Ru).
A similar petition posted on the ROI.ru site gathered over 67,000 signatures in less than a month but is still short from the required 100,000 figure.
Source: http://rt.com/news/piracy-law-internet-strike-912/
posted from Bloggeroid
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Italy on the Brink of Depressione!
From the August Forecast, I learn that yet another technocrat is pushing the people down, enslaving them further to the globalist bankers. It is a crime Yehovah may hold them accountable for.
Depressione: Italy on the Brink
Government austerity has predictable after-effects, namely, a contraction of economic activity. Just ask Greece or Italy. It also has the effect of paralyzing the social and political arena because trust is challenged on every level.It’s a Cache 22 situation though. When governments accumulate so much debt that the market starts to question their ability to pay it all back, then lenders start demanding payment. That’s not totally unreasonable, considering that a lender has every right to expect payment from the borrower.
When a government racks up debt faster than the economy grows, the eventual curtailment of all reckless spending is guaranteed.
By November 2011, Italy’s debt crisis had already gridlocked the political process. Someone was going to get seriously hurt no matter which way they turned. If they defaulted on debts, then investors would be burned. If they raised taxes, then citizens would be burned. If they tried to shrink the size of government, the economy would contract and everyone would get burned.
It’s tempting to say “What a mess they had made of their national affairs” except that America has done exactly the same thing. The U.S. is on the same track, just a few miles behind.
When it became obvious that Italian politicians could not move forward with any solution, the lenders stepped in and took over government operation.
This is how and why Trilateral Commissioner Mario Monti came to be appointed (not elected) as Prime Minister of Italy. He was widely hailed as a technocrat, in the sense of “rule by expert” vs. democratically elected government. According to BBC News at the time,
Mario Monti has been asked to form a new Italian government to tackle an acute debt crisis which prompted the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Mr Monti, an ex-EU commissioner, said he was starting urgent talks on his cabinet, aiming to restore finances.
Read on... Findings & Forecasts 03/13/2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Friday, December 7, 2012
About Truth, Propaganda & Media Manipulation
Truth, Propaganda and Media Manipulation
Excerpt:
It is also important to address how the mainstream media is intertwined, often covertly and secretly, with the government. Carl Bernstein, one of the two Washington Post reporters who covered the Watergate scandal, revealed that there were over 400 American journalists who had “secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.” Interestingly, “the use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence-gathering employed by the CIA.” Among organizations which cooperated with the CIA were the “American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune.”
By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc. The CIA even ran a training program “to teach its agents to be journalists,” who were “then placed in major news organizations with help from management.”
Makes you just so comfortable with the establishment, don't it?
Excerpt:
It is also important to address how the mainstream media is intertwined, often covertly and secretly, with the government. Carl Bernstein, one of the two Washington Post reporters who covered the Watergate scandal, revealed that there were over 400 American journalists who had “secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.” Interestingly, “the use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence-gathering employed by the CIA.” Among organizations which cooperated with the CIA were the “American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune.”
By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc. The CIA even ran a training program “to teach its agents to be journalists,” who were “then placed in major news organizations with help from management.”
Makes you just so comfortable with the establishment, don't it?
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