Hi all, Whether the US government is censoring information about Ukraine is, of course, an important subject. But perhaps a new thread should be started to discuss that.
Let's not lose sight of Adam's questions, which were: Does anyone here know the details of Internet filtering in Ukraine? If so, which sites are blocked? Thanks, Yosem One of the list moderators On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Not Rayzer Raygun <ray...@riseup.net>wrote: > On 12/03/14 11:52, Rayzer Raygun wrote: > > On 3/12/2014 10:05 AM, Adam Fisk wrote: > >> Greetings LibTech! > >> > >> Does anyone here know the details of Internet filtering in the > >> Ukraine? I've heard of keyword filtering, but are sites actually > >> blocked? If so, do you know which ones? > >> > >> Many thanks. > >> > >> -Adam > >> > > Dimitry Orlov, host and socioeconomic commentator at ClubOrlov is > stating: > > > > The guest post from Renée last week (Chronology of the Ukrainian Coup ) > > appeared on this blog because Huffington Post refused to run it. And now > > I hear that no comment linking the new Ukrainian government to the > > neo-Nazis or the neo-Nazis to the mass murder in Kiev can get through on > > any news site. It seems like there is an actual news blackout on this > > message: > > > >> "It appears that the US State Dept. gave $5 billion to Ukrainian > > neo-Nazis who used some of the money to hire mass murderers who > > massacred protesters, policemen and bystanders in order to provide a > > rationale for overthrowing the democratically elected government of > > Ukraine and installing an anti-Russian puppet government." > >> > > From the same blog that says Ukraine "outlawed the use of Russian > language"? > > >> That's about as short and sweet as I can make it. Please go and see > > how many places you can cut and paste that sentence. It would give us an > > idea of the extent of the censorship in the US. > >> > > Nice innovation, crowdsourcing your bullshit propaganda as a game for > unsuspecting players! > > >> First they take over Ukraine, then Huffington Post, what's next? Your > > living-room?" > > > > (Editorial Note: No, not your living room folks...:) > > It seems American's access to correct information about Ukraine is being > > 'filtered' > > > > Click through my post@ Tumblr > > <http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/79363236308>, it's humorously > > illustrated, and honestly when I see the US government and Americans > > cheering "Democracy in Ukraine" even as the descendants of the people > > who chased my Bessarabian Jewish grandfather across the Baltic during > > the late 1800s pogroms take power in a Fascist Putsch (See Pepe Escobar: > > http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-120314.html), I NEED > > some humor, and to note this list seems to have an unseemly tendency to > > serve US foreign policy interests (as viewed from Stanford perhaps), NOT > > "Liberation" interests. > > > > How much are you getting paid to write this email? The "west is > hypocritical" smokescreen is getting tiring, please cut the crap. You're > not fooling anyone. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu.
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