Posted on 12/21/2014 5:24:38 AM PST by elhombrelibre
MOSCOW — In a sign of new limits on Facebook’s ability to serve as a platform for political opposition movements, Russian users appear to have been blocked from accessing a page calling for a protest in support of a prominent dissident.
In 2011, Facebook was hailed by opposition movements during the Arab Spring and in Russia as a powerful new tool to spread information beyond the control of repressive governments. That may no longer be the case, at least not in Russia. Russian Internet regulators said Saturday that they had sent Facebook a “demand” that it block access to a page calling for a demonstration in support of Alexei Navalny, the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Maybe someone should start a site called Warbook.
The sarcasm or irony is beyond me.
They just said Facebook has shown its limits for providing a platform for political opposition. I just said someone should start a site called War-book to fill in that gap.
Sorry if it wasn’t funny. I tried.
Oh, your point is that you equate political opposition to Putin with war. I get it. Very clever.
No. It was about Facebook. Many people see political debate as a sort of art of war. I meant absolutely nothing about Putin. But don’t let that stop your imagination from running wild.
Remember Clinton and His War-room?
How many political books use war terminology?
How about starting up a Hatebook for the political class that can’t debate without being consumed with hatred.
Why can’t you just let the topic be about the article posted?
Not to self. Ignore strange people who make no sense and want to contribute nothing of value.
Communist Tool
Thanks elhombrelibre.
Looks as if not all “homophobes” are politically incorrect after all.
“The crisis is suddenly filtering into people’s daily lives,” says Bill Browder from Hermitage. “55pc of consumer goods in Russia are imported and these are doubling in price. People are buying anything they can that keeps its value.”
Vedomisti reports that there is a de facto run on banks as depositors pull what they can from ATM machines, fearing the guillotine at any moment. Soviet queues are appearing again.
“It’s going to be worse than the default crisis in 1998. This time you have a situation where the West is against them,” says Browder. “Russian companies are shut out of the global capital markets. The country can’t turn to the IMF because Washington will block it. There is no lender of last resort.”
Bloomberg reports that Putin asked his key advisers at a secret meeting in February whether Russia had sufficient foreign reserves to withstand a showdown with the West if it annexed Crimea. They assured him that Russia could weather the storm.
The article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is worth a few minutes.
The question is when will Putin depart and how?
Kremlin insiders gathered in secret last February to answer a crucial question for Vladimir Putin: Could Russia afford the economic blowback from taking over Crimea?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/putin-s-secret-gamble-bet-on-ukraine-backfires-in-ruble-crisis.html
And now with its links with the NSA Facebook has become part of powerful repressive governments. It was Satan after all that voiceed the phrase “If you can’t beat them, join them.
Why can’t trolls just let people cross the bridge?
Thanks AdmSmith. Looks like a good topic of its own.
Who is Alexei Navalny, and why does he scare Putin so much?
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/30/7468609/alexei-navalny-russia
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