[liberationtech] Internet filtering in the Ukraine?

[Not Rayzer Raygun]

On 12/03/14 11:52, Rayzer Raygun wrote:
> On 3/12/2014 10:05 AM, Adam Fisk wrote:
>> Greetings LibTech!
>>
>> Does anyone here know the details of Internet filtering in the
>> Ukraine? I've heard of keyword filtering, but are sites actually
>> blocked? If so, do you know which ones?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
> Dimitry Orlov, host and socioeconomic commentator at ClubOrlov is stating:
> 
> The guest post from Renée last week (Chronology of the Ukrainian Coup )
> appeared on this blog because Huffington Post refused to run it. And now
> I hear that no comment linking the new Ukrainian government to the
> neo-Nazis or the neo-Nazis to the mass murder in Kiev can get through on
> any news site. It seems like there is an actual news blackout on this
> message:
> 
>> "It appears that the US State Dept. gave $5 billion to Ukrainian
> neo-Nazis who used some of the money to hire mass murderers who
> massacred protesters, policemen and bystanders in order to provide a
> rationale for overthrowing the democratically elected government of
> Ukraine and installing an anti-Russian puppet government."
>>

>From the same blog that says Ukraine "outlawed the use of Russian language"?

>> That’s about as short and sweet as I can make it. Please go and see
> how many places you can cut and paste that sentence. It would give us an
> idea of the extent of the censorship in the US.
>>

Nice innovation, crowdsourcing your bullshit propaganda as a game for unsuspecting players!

>> First they take over Ukraine, then Huffington Post, what’s next? Your
> living-room?”
> 
> (Editorial Note: No, not your living room folks…:)
> It seems American's access to correct information about Ukraine is being
> 'filtered'
> 
> Click through my post@ Tumblr
> <http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/79363236308>, it's humorously
> illustrated, and honestly when I see the US government and Americans
> cheering "Democracy in Ukraine" even as the descendants of the people
> who chased my Bessarabian Jewish grandfather across the Baltic during
> the late 1800s pogroms take power in a Fascist Putsch (See Pepe Escobar:
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-120314.html), I NEED
> some humor, and to note this list seems to have an unseemly tendency to
> serve US foreign policy interests (as viewed from Stanford perhaps), NOT
> "Liberation" interests.
> 

How much are you getting paid to write this email? The "west is hypocritical" smokescreen is getting tiring, please cut the crap. You're not fooling anyone.