Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
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Re: Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
#2I think it's going to be the same during the next elections in Russia. It's really sad to see the declaration of the main opponent (Tikhanovskaya) (1)
Protesters are in jail (more than 2000 people), a guy has been killed by a truck, etc.
1: https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293127604330016769
Re: Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
#3I think it's going to be the same during the next elections in Russia. It's really sad to see the declaration of the main opponent (Tikhanovskaya) (1) Protesters are in jail (more than 2000 people), a guy has been killed by a truck, etc. 1: https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293127604330016769
The first video in the twitter thread you link to was extorted from the winning opposition candidate by senior Belarusian officials in the office of the Central Electoral Commission.
The declaration she made after arriving in Lithuania is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzisJ388Xs
In it, she roughly says "I thought I've been hardened by this campaign and that I will handle it. But I am still the weak woman that I was initially. I made a difficult decision. God save you from the kind of choice I had to make. Take care of yourself. Kids are the most important thing that you have in life."
And indeed, the internet is completely down in Belarus. Phone network still works.
Re: Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
#4I think it's going to be the same during the next elections in Russia. It's really sad to see the declaration of the main opponent (Tikhanovskaya) (1) Protesters are in jail (more than 2000 people), a guy has been killed by a truck, etc. 1: https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1293127604330016769
The first video in the twitter thread you link to was extorted from the winning opposition candidate by senior Belarusian officials in the office of the Central Electoral Commission. The declaration she made after arriving in Lithuania is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzisJ388Xs In it, she roughly says "I thought I've been hardened by this campaign and that I will handle it. But I am still the weak woman that…
Ah, so they threatened her kids. Sickening.
Re: Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
#5#KeepItOn.
Internet shutdowns are disastrous economically and the countries that need to resort to them are just feeding fuel to the fire. There are countries that simply shutdown access to certain social media platforms (not that that's better) but shutting down the entire internet is the very definition of desperate to me.
Re: Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first video in the twitter thread you link to was extorted from the winning opposition candidate by senior Belarusian officials in the office of the Central Electoral Commission. The declaration she made after arriving in Lithuania is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzisJ388Xs In it, she roughly says "I thought I've been hardened by this campaign and that I will handle it. But I am still the weak woman that…
Ah, so they threatened her kids. Sickening.
At some point in the past, she said that her kids were safe abroad, but it does not take a big country to successfully track and extort people anywhere in the world.
Re: Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
#7wondering what / if any impact "the space internet" (or like networks) will have on national government's ability to disrupt comms. or if it just shifts the goalposts to a different network operator
Re: Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
#8I have coworkers in Belarus who have been cut off from our (US based) company since the weekend. I've been able to hear from one of them intermittently, but it's a scary thing, I can't imagine what they're going through.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, so they threatened her kids. Sickening.
At some point in the past, she said that her kids were safe abroad, but it does not take a big country to successfully track and extort people anywhere in the world.
I believe her husband, who she has been running in the stead of after he was (unjustly) disqualified, is currently imprisoned in Belarus. That is probably one of her concerns.
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#10wow that headline/article really hedges like there are somehow other possibilities and they are supposed to be inclusive? I mean he's an authoritarian in power since 1991, it's a tyrants lifelong dream
I wonder how the USA's 2020 is going to be written by outsiders hedging how it all could have been somehow legitimate.