Security versus privacy and censorship. It is necessary to improve the security of the Russian Internet (known colloquially as Runet). This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian Security Council . For this he proposed to adopt additional normative acts. At the same time, the head of state stressed that it is not about limiting access to the internet and not about "total barriers and filters" for citizens."We must fight against those and those who use the...
Read More »RT — NGO publishes names of 2,300+ RT guests, labels them ‘useful idiots who undermine Western democracy
Neo-McCarthyism flourishes. An NGO called the European Values Think-Tank has published a report on RT featuring an extensive list of US and European public figures who have been accused of “undermining western democracy” just by appearing in RT shows.The report, claiming to be an “overview of RT’s editorial strategy and evidence of impact,” comes with an Excel list of 2,327 people who have appeared on RT over the last four years. The names are carefully arranged in seven categories,...
Read More »Eric Zuesse — NYT: $100,000 Russian Facebook Political Ads Prove Censorship Need
Censorship moves into high gear as TPTB move to control the narrative. Russiagate is another instance of "disaster capitalism" with the Establishment attempting to seize control of the narrative that resulted from damaging revelations about the Clinton campaign. The new narrative is that the Russian government led by Vladimir Putin is nefariously using covert operations to undermine Western liberal democracy.Washington's BlogNYT: $100,000 Russian Facebook Political Ads Prove Censorship...
Read More »Justin Raimondo — The Campaign To Rein In the Internet
It’s part and parcel of the “Russia-gate” hoax.… The Powers That Be have always hated the internet, and now they’re finally making some progress in their campaign to have it reined in. Using the “Russia threat” and Hillary Clinton’s loss to appeal to those who used to be called “liberals,” they’re teaming up with neoconservatives like Bill Kristol and foreign-funded (!) outfits like the Alliance to Secure Democracy to achieve their longtime dream of regulating internet content. And they...
Read More »SouthFront —YouTube Bans SYRIANGIRL’s Video About Her Facebook Ban – for ‘Hate Speech’
Censorship strikes again. Google, FaceBook, say it isn't so. Sure looks like it. (Google owns YouTube).Is the window closing and the blinds being drawn?SouthFrontYouTube Bans SYRIANGIRL’s Video About Her Facebook Ban – for ‘Hate Speech’lkb22
Read More »Jacques Sapir — Suspension of my blog “RussEurope” by OpenEdition
Quite probably of course the very success of my blog, which jumped from 26000 monthly connexions to more than 200 000 monthly connexions could explain why what was thought to be “tolerable” in 2012 is no more by 2017 under Mr Macron’s rule.This suspension amounts to an act of arbitrariness and an act of politically motivated censorship.... Censorship rears its ugly head in France under the Macron government. The ruling elites of the world getting worried?Real-World Economics Review...
Read More »Alex Krainer — Amazon.com burns my book – and you need to know about this
A Google search on the title returns, "sorry we could not find that page"and a search at Amazon returns "did not match any products". Sure looks strange to me. This is more disturbing than the counter-narrative about Browder. A documentary about Browder was suppressed, too. See Robert Parry, A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War at Consortium News, previously linked to at MNE. The Naked HedgieAmazon.com burns my book – and you need to know about this Alex Krainer, The Naked...
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