Balkans: Destroying Enemy Websites
Bosnia Herzegovina
Balkan Ghost of Finding Karadzic writes about “the inefficient tactics of destroying mainstream enemy websites” by the American government - including karadzic.org.
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Balkan Ghost of Finding Karadzic writes about “the inefficient tactics of destroying mainstream enemy websites” by the American government - including karadzic.org.
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Blogger Ulrika Lejnarová, highlighting air pollution data from the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute [sk], wonders [sk] why Slovakia, while often paying attention to the critical conditions in Hungary [en], is doing little to inform its own citizens of the domestic situation adequately, in order to avoid health complications.
GV Author Filip Stojanovski posts pictures of Skopje's snowy and icy streets and reports on his blog: “[…] the pavements and the side streets in the municipality of Centar remain icy. Some are covered by layers of ice or re-frozen slush, by old frozen snow, or an unevenly hardened mash of snow and 'salt.' Fokus daily claimed that the authorities avoid declaring nationwide state of emergency in order to ‘prove' that they were prepared for the snow.”
On February 9, 2012, following the widely-discussed leaks of pro-Kremlin mailboxes, LiveJournal, where the leaks were published, became temporarily unavailable, Lenta.ru reported [ru]. Russian representative of Anonymous group @OP_Russia, suggested [ru] that it was a DDoS attack to hide the evidence of massive wrongdoings (including corruption, thievery, political provocations, and cybercrime) [ru] by Nashi youth movement. Later that day @OP_Russia took responsibility for taking down 3 websites of United Russia party: mos-partya.ru, er-region.ru, and er-kaluga.ru.
At OpenDemocracy.net, Olesya Gerasimenko talks to the parents of three young neo-Nazi men who were convicted of race murders: “One has adopted the views of their only child and says that violence is necessary. One blames the politicians that have incited adolescents to street fighting. One cries, convinced of the innocence of his son. They are all different, but they have all asked themselves one and the same question: ‘am I to blame for what happened?’”
While the authorities in Macedonia remain silent on the country's stance on the ACTA, bloggers, such as Airborne, emphasize the need to gain more knowledge [mk], as the traditional media mostly ignore the issue: “Maybe, one of these days, we'll just simply wake up in the ACTA-ruled world.” The new media attempting to fill this gap in local languages include Metamorphosis and IT.com.mk. Endek blog advocates [mk] standing up for Internet freedom by joining international protest movements.
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Why cant people live in love,have respect for humanity… way too many lives are been waisted for all the wrong reasons, the bible says though shall not KILL!! but we disobay the laws of GOD…..
so why is anyone to believe that there is going to be peace on earth, think again! this is revelation.
Good story. It is mindending to think of the number of people the CIA employs in monitoring, hacking and planting disinformation on the net.
I’m sure the US would love to emulate the Indian Government’s recent wholesale blocking of bloggers, but such overt action would of course lead to questions about what the US actually means by ‘freedom’.
It’s nothing new. About three years ago, a CIA agent was ‘outed’ on a small expat discussion forum I joined in Holland. It appears there was (maybe still is) a whole team based in Switzerland paid to post neo-con views to forums all over Europe.
Back to the story and the point: the information war on the net is so vast that I suspect the American Government simply can’t counter all its opponents and has to shut a lot of sites down for expediency. The decision may seem odd here but, on a global scale, it’s understandable.