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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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That man blessed the unrepentant leaders of the most powerful network of child rapists and murderers seen in Europe since the days of the Nazis. To the best of my knowledge he never sought to apologise. Modesty is a way of understanding the world better, not ignoring it. How sad for Serbia that it had a spiritual leader who chose to look at his flock with two blind eyes.
To the previous commentor – Owen. It’s sad when someone with such little knowledge and outright biased views can so blatently comment with pure evil and stupidity. The Patriarch Pavle was a great man who cared deeply for his country and fellow man. Like so many other religious figures, he was not blessing evil and not promoting it either. He was not a soldier or politician. I don’t recall any other group or religion involved in the Balkan war apologising for their atrocities. There were many by all sides. I don’t recall the Croatians apologising for joing the Nazis and conducting ethnic cleansing on the Serbs. I didn’t hear about any Albanian group saying sorry for harvesting human organs from Serbs either. And you want to hear an apology from a religious figure because there was war? Did those other groups have no input from their religous representatives?
Mike,
I can’t speak for Owen, but I didn’t want to hear his apology. No, I wanted him to stop war mongering and I wanted him to stand up against rightist lunatics who took over the church.
Pavle was the patriarch during 1990′s – the time when the Church, of which HE was the leader, became a sanctuary for chauvinism, hate and war mongering.
Perhaps Pavle was modest in his personal life (and as it happens, he wasn’t THAT modest), but he was the leader and the Patriarch of the Church. You can’t deny it.