A simple tactic, don’t let them communicate and
they can’t organize.
Twitter said Saturday that some of its users had
experienced disrupted service in Pakistan after reports that the
government blocked social media sites in the country amid violent
clashes between police and protesters near the capital of Islamabad.
"We are aware of reports that the Pakistani
government has taken action to block Twitter service, as well as
other social media services, and that users are having difficulty
using Twitter in Pakistan," Twitter announced via its public
policy account. "We are monitoring the situation and hope
service will be fully restored soon."
A Pakistani government body that regulates
electronic media took TV broadcasts off the air while major sites
including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were blocked as violence
broke out, according The
Associated Press.
Upping the ante? Or a simple way to alert
readers?
Russia will
now label the reporting of global news outlets as the work of
“foreign agents”
According to a new law signed by Russian president
Vladimir Putin on Saturday (Nov. 26), the Russian government now has
the power to label media outlets that receive funding from outside
Russia as “foreign agents.”
The law
is retaliatory. Russian officials have called it a “symmetrical
response” to the US Department of Justice’s requirement that the
American affiliate of the Russian state-run TV news outlet RT
identify itself as a “foreign agent,” in the wake of accusations
that the Russian government meddled in the election of US president
Donald Trump. While the registration is a new development, it was in
accordance with an old US law, the Foreign
Agents Registration Act (FARA), which was passed in 1938 to
combat Nazi propaganda in the US.
A simple 180 turn?
Back in 2005, a small phone company based in North
Carolina named Madison River began preventing its subscribers from
making phone calls using the internet application Vonage.
For you history nuts.
An
Illustrated History of Donald Trump’s Hair. Warning! Don’t Read
Before Lunch!
Very Trump-esque.
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