Notices tagged with russia, page 13

#russia and Seattle/Silicon Valley agree. They agree on #surveillance and on #censorship of tools that are hard to spy on https://boingboing.net/2018/05/03/amazon-doesnt-like-how-signa.html https://qz.com/1268974/google-and-amazon-end-domain-fronting-to-bypass-internet-censorship-in-africa/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/05/03/google-and-amazon-put-an-end-to-censorship-dodging-domain-fronting/ https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-03/telegram-block-gets-help-from-google-and-amazon

Sepp #blatter is out. No Russian leverage over him anymore.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/03/russia-fifa-should-urge-kremlin-free-chechen-activist
#fifa #russia

#Russia Censors Struggling to Block #Telegram App
https://www.voanews.com/a/russian-censors-struggling-to-block-telegram-app/4374039.html Today the internet, tomorrow your life https://theoutline.com/post/4392/russia-protest-monstrations-telegram-performance-art-may-day

#facebook "spread of fake news and the spread of Russian disinformation in the wake of the 2016 US election." http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-ignores-newsfeed-f8-keynote-speech-2018-5 always #russia alone being named, not US entities

Making #russia synonymous with "facts"? Slippery slope. https://consortiumnews.com/2018/05/02/russian-talking-points-look-an-awful-lot-like-well-documented-facts/ #wikileaks

British parliament gives Mark #Zuckerberg ultimatum after rejected invitation https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=da&u=https://www.version2.dk/artikel/britisk-parlament-giver-mark-zuckerberg-ultimatum-efter-afvist-invitation-1085025 not only #russia can meddle. #facebook can.

On Politics: Political stunt or serious lawsuit? (opinion) https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/opinion/on-politics-political-stunt-or-serious-lawsuit-opinion/ #dnc just trying to associate #wikileaks with #russia with #trump with Wikileaks etc.

Blaming #Russia is the Default Electoral Position in the West https://anniemachon.ch/annie_machon/2018/04/blaming-russia-is-the-default-electoral-position-in-the-west.html @anniemachon on RT

#internet #censorship in #russia like nothing the West ever sees
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/technology/173601-180430-thousands-rally-in-moscow-to-send-telegram-support https://www.sbs.com.au/news/thousands-in-moscow-slam-kremlin-s-telegram-attack https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-of-russians-protest-against-kremlins-block-on-telegram-messaging-app-11353984 https://themoscowtimes.com/news/thousands-in-moscow-protest-ban-against-messaging-service-telegram-61307 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-internet-telegram-navalny-protest-moscow-a8329886.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/europe/russia-telegram-digital-resistance.html

#russophobia lovers want to bring Gareth Williams back from the grave for anti #russia rhetoric http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5671453/Detective-calls-fresh-probe-mysterious-death-spy.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/former-scotland-yard-top-cop-12451137 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6172016/calls-for-new-probe-into-mysterious-death-of-brit-spy-found-padlocked-in-holdall-in-light-of-skripal-poisoning/ https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/death-gchq-spy-gareth-williams-1514502

clashes between #SDF and #SAF (baath loyalists) have mostly been avoided.

Today happen heavy clashes around Deir ez-Zor with #SAA (part of SAF) capturing parts of the area, just to end with #SDF retaking hours later, with #US air support (claimed by #YPG)

There have been (for me yet unconfirmed) claims that russian airforce RuAf, was involved within this operation. (see image, it's a pro russia/syria source)

#syria #deirezzor #russia