Their raw power and stranglehold of media and government is allowing this elite cabal of globalists, who often publicly praise and act as if free speech, openness and knowledge is needed for "democracy" and "freedom", are actively supporting top bankers, paid congressmen and politicians, an an internationalist globalist cabal bent on creating a New World Order built on a modern scientific form of communism, Nazism and fascism dictatorship, of which is built on a base belief of complete restriction of free speech, rights and liberties, all under the guise of a United Nations framework.
Of course, a powerful tool they have as all powerful masters of the World, is the ability to launch cyber wars and fund and train individuals to carry out targeted assault on online media, painting internet users as extreme and dangerous, and use cases of individuals who are acting criminally online as fodder to destroy free speech on the internet, on blogs and news websites.
Examples of web censorship in Canada/United States and Russia will be shown below.
Posting articles from TheIntelHub.com
This happens on Facebook with many articles from various media websites, including mainstream sources. In fact you may not even see this message, your post just will not be posted on your page, or immediately disappear from the main public update feed.
Also in the United States, you have cases of FBI and the DHS shutting down hosting and DNS servers in mass for simply hosting a single page that may contain or link to "copyrighted material", shutting hundreds and thousands of websites down at a time with a simple message such as "this website was found to contain copyrighted material" or the even better "this website was found to contain material related to illegal pornography".
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/26/homeland-security-shuts-dozens-sites/
The office of Presidency in the United States of America also has established a cyber security command and czar, and has established bills and executive order to allow the President of the United States to shut down the internet for the entire country if "deemed necessary"Homeland Security shuts down dozens of Web sites without court order
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124579956278644449.html
http://www.dailytech.com/US+Military+Creates+Cyber+Defense+Department/article15513.htm
http://www.btsecurethinking.com/2011/07/an-internet-kill-switch/
http://fcw.com/articles/2011/05/23/cybersecurity-plan-hearing-kill-switch-returns.aspx
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/internet-kill-switch-woul_n_615923.html
Now Russia is playing the same globalist regime anti-free speech game:
http://en.rian.ru/society/20110713/165174963.html
Ministry calls for media network to censor extremist comment on Web media
Russia's Communications Ministry is to discuss proposals on Thursday for ways to speed up the process of deleting offensive and extremist user comments from online media pages.
Sergei Zheleznyak, who heads the information policy committee in the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, said a special state-run network of all Russian online media should be set up to quickly inform moderators and editors about offensive and extremist content detected on their websites.http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,714848,00.html
"Such a database will enable [Russian telecoms regulator] Roskomnadzor to control users' comments on the Internet and inform online media about extremists or offensive comments on their material," Zheleznyak said.
The initiative is part of a drive by the ministry's Council for Internet and New Media to fulfil President Medvedev's instruction for better legislation on accountability of Internet media for user comment posted on its pages. The ministry has to present its proposals by August 1.
The proposed amendments, if adopted, would not affect bloggers and social networking sites.
"They [the proposals] will affect only online media, whose activities fall under the law on the media," Zheleznyak said.
An online service of this type may be launched next year. It would also enable users to lodge complaints about comments that they find offensive.
Zheleznyak said proposals have been made to cut from three days to 24 hours the period in which media must delete an offensive comment or face litigation.
Will Russia's Bloggers Survive Censorship Push?
One sunny June day in California, Rustem Adagamov was rushing without his glasses on when he literally ran into Russia's president. "I simply didn't see Dmitry Medvedev," Russia's most influential blogger says, "and I bumped right into him."
This is a serious global issue and it highlights the agenda of the international globalists and the creation of their ruthless New World Order.Adagamov, 48, uses his blog to report on a range of grievances, including the arrests of opposition members and "unparalleled police brutality." Each day, his blog gets around 600,000 page views, making it more widely read than many of Moscow's daily newspapers. Adagamov has even made fun of Medvedev on his blog by posting photographs of cups bearing the portraits of Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the caption "They all lie anyway" printed in bold.
Acts like these make it all the more astonishing that Medvedev agreed to submit to an interview with the Kremlin critic. And that's not all: The president also invited Adagamov to accompany him to California for a meeting with Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple.
Medvedev, 44, is an avowed fan of the Internet, writes his own blog and uses Twitter. The president, for example, recently wrote an article -- entitled "Forward, Russia!" -- that garnered global attention for its ruthless analysis of Russia's economic backwardness. But instead of distributing it via a government newspaper or state-run television, he had it published on Gazeta.ru, Russia's best-known online newspaper. And, just last week, Medvedev halted a controversial highway construction project near Moscow via video blog.
Although Medvedev calls for "openness at all levels" from his government and Russian authorities, many among the country's power elite view this as taking things a bit too far -- especially when it comes to the Internet. Medvedev's own chief of staff, Sergei Naryshkin, recently called a meeting in response to a writer at Gazeta.ru who had laid into Putin and Medvedev because she was upset about how their motorcades were blocking traffic.
Russia at the IT Crossroads
The FSB, Russia's domestic intelligence agency, wants to force Internet service providers to remove undesirable websites. A law also requires these providers to install hardware at their own expense that allows the FSB -- with a judge's authorization -- to keep track of the websites people visit and the e-mails they write.
Some service providers have even started proactively censoring users themselves. Companies such as Scartel, for example, block portals belonging to Kremlin critics, including former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
In this battle over the Internet, there are two camps. The issue is about the future course Russia will take and about how much freedom it will allow its 142 million citizens. Some believe Russia should take its cue from the liberal West. But others think it should follow more in the footsteps of authoritarian regimes like China, which is trying as hard as it can to control the Internet -- and, with it, its citizens.
For his part, Medvedev sees information technology as the "key to the development of democracy" and the Internet as the "most important resource" in reaching his primary goal: modernizing his massive nation.
Where Google Is Not King
Russia's Internet companies have been playing a prominent role in this process. They've been able to stave off foreign competition so far and, lately, they've even started expanding into the West. This April, the investment company Digital Sky Technologies (DST) -- owned by start-up investor Yuri Milner and gas and metal magnate Alisher Usmanov -- increased its share in Facebook to 10 percent and purchased the ICQ instant-messaging system from the American company AOL for $188 million (€148 million). ICQ has over 40 million active users, many of whom are in the West.
Hammocks and bowls of fresh fruit lend a touch of Silicon Valley to the open-plan offices of Yandex, Russia's champion among search engines. "We respect Google," says Yelena Kolmanovskaya, who co-founded the company 13 years ago, "but we're simply better." Today, Yandex has more than 2,000 employees and controls around 65 percent of the Russian market. Likewise, no other search engine in the world is growing faster. Google, which controls around 70 percent of the global market, is stagnating in Russia at a meager 22 percent.
Sixty million Russians now regularly surf online, an increase of 15 million over last year. For many, the Internet serves as a release valve, a place where members of this well-educated but overly controlled society can let off some steam. Likewise, nearly 50 percent of Internet users in Moscow have a blog, as do 7.5 million people throughout the country -- a figure nearly double what it was a year ago.
Since the Kremlin has brought almost all major television stations under its control over the last decade, and since newspapers and magazines have low circulations -- and are often owned by oligarchs with close ties to the government -- it has been left to the bloggers to exercise the checks-and-balances function traditionally performed by the media. Even tabloids such as the Komsomolskaya Pravda have praised bloggers as the "Fifth Estate."
Indeed, these days, it's usually bloggers -- rather than members of the traditional media -- who expose scandals and give voice to grievances. Blog reports by a student on conditions at a nursing home near Moscow, for example, led to the firing of its corrupt director. And, this spring, when a Mercedes belonging to a high-level manager at the oil giant Lukoil sped into a car in the opposite lane and killed two women, crime scene photographs published online exposed police attempts at a cover-up.
"Russia's bloggers are simply the most serious," says Brad Fitzpatrick, the American founder of LiveJournal, an online service that allows people to set up their own blogs. And there's no doubt that bloggers in Russia are more influential than they are anywhere else.
This degree of influence was one of the factors that led Adagamov -- whose online moniker is "Drugoi," or "the Other" -- to give up his comfortable life in Norway as the creative director of an advertising agency five years ago and move to Moscow. Still, it remains to be seen whether he will be able to work as freely here as he was able to in the past.
"President Medvedev isn't a bad guy," Adagamov says, "and I appreciate his openness." But he remains skeptical as to whether the president will ultimately succeed in pushing through his ideas about the Internet. As Adagamov sees it, "the Internet is the last free territory -- but it won't stay that way for long."
Russia's Anti-Internet-Freedom Crusader
One of Russia's sharpest-tongued opponents of online freedom is Robert Schlegel, who comes from an ethnic German family. Like Adagamov, Schlegel owns an iPad and writes a blog. But, unlike Adagamov, the 25 year old is not one of the "Others." Instead, he belongs to "Nashi" (literally "Ours"), a pro-Putin, Kremlin-controlled youth organization. Since leaving a position as a Nashi spokesman in 2007, Schlegel has served as a member of parliament for Putin's United Russia party. At the moment, he is working on a new Internet law that would introduce a type of electronic passport for every user, making the Internet as easy to control as the other forms of media that have been amenable to promoting government interests.
Schlegel dreams of someday becoming a minister. In the meantime, he gives instruction to young patriots as they film video clips for YouTube at Nashi's summer camp on Lake Seliger, halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Nashi members are notoriously fervent Putin admirers. Some time ago, the critical daily newspaper Kommersant even accused the group of having carried out cyber attacks that paralyzed its website.
Last year, Schlegel even suggested allowing newspapers to be shut down for "defamation" and lobbied for a strict limit on the proportion of foreign films shown in Russian movie theaters, in the belief that: "Many media sources abuse their freedoms."
Which Path Will Business Pursue?
Alexander Mamut, Russia's most powerful Internet oligarch, will have to take a stand somewhere between Adagamov and Schlegel, between the progressive blogger and the conservative Internet regulator. In 2007, Mamut -- whose wealth is estimated to be $1.5 billion, according to the American business magazine Forbes -- bought a majority share of LiveJournal. Nearly half of all Russian blogs operate on the blog-hosting site, including those of Adagamov and his adversary Schlegel.
The question, of course, is: Which side is Mamut on? The magnate, who refuses to grant interviews on political topics, will only say: "Russia needs to finally learn to cultivate its people instead of its raw materials."
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