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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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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.
Andrey Rylkov Foundation writes about the first case of enforcement of the domain seizure rules in the “.ru” and “.рф” domain zones. The rules [ru] (Article 5, point 5.5) , updated on November 11, 2011 allow any law enforcement agency (like police, Federal Security Service, Prosecutor's office or Federal Drug Control Services (FDCS)) to request domain seizure without a court order. On February 3, 2012 FDCS successfully seized the domain of rylkov-fond.ru, a website of Rylkov Foundation that had severely criticized situation with drug trafficking.
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ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME overcome the Ukrainian bureaucratic beasts!!!
Immediately after news of western Ukraine’s floods was announced the USA government made available SIX cargo containers of flood relief items. One of these is filled with NEW medical supplies from a military warehouse in Germany. For the past 7 days we have been sent on ridiculous tasks by officials in Ukraine’s Humanitarian Aid Commission where we are told by one person to talk to another person who tells us to talk to another person…. I have emailed officials in Ukraine but have not received any replies. The USA Embassy in Kyiv has contacted Ukraine’s government and was given assurances of instant approval BUT we still have no approvals. We are being told conflicting directives—no one in Kyiv wants to take the lead and help us get this relief assistance approved and we are told to go to Ivano-Frankivsk officials. Were the President and Prime Minister really sincere in saying they will help get relief items into the flooded areas? I believe they were but perhaps the question should be asked “WHO is in charge and able to get relief items into the west?” Can anyone help us conquer Ukraine’s Ukrainian bureaucratic beasts in order to help those suffering in the west? While Ukraine’s bureaucrats are sitting in dry offices, living in dry homes, wearing dry clothes, and not concerned about the security of everything they have gathered together in their lives being washed away, thousands in west Ukraine are living in misery!
We have offered to help the flooding disaster in western Ukraine. Immediately following catastrophe both Ukraine’s President and Prime Minster made a statement that relief aid would be expedited and those hindering such would be fired from their positions. The USA government is committed to shipping containers of flood relief items that will be distributed in cooperation and direction of Ukraine’s Emergency Ministry. Our efforts have resulted in nothing but irritated frustrations. We have been told one thing by one person and a contradictory thing by another person. We have been made to appear as foolish as a dog casing its own tail. I have communicated directly with members in the Humanitarian Aid Commission but have not received any personal response but my colleagues have received conflicting reports or have received no reply at all. The US Embassy asked that these approvals be expedited and talked with a man named “Alexander” in Kyiv’s HAC but now this man will not return calls or communicate. We have communicated through personal emails, through telephone calls, through the USA Embassy in Kyiv, and through COUNTERPART INTERNATIONAL.
CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME overcome the Ukrainian bureaucratic beasts and get relief assistance to those suffering in western Ukraine?!