Category: politics

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Pussy Riot — MAMA, DON’T WATCH TV / МАМА, НЕ СМОТРИ ТЕЛЕВИЗОР (ANTI – WAR SONG)

Thanks to an article in The Independent, I found this – and I thought that maybe an anti war video would make a nice Christmas message?

Pussy Riot — MAMA, DON’T WATCH TV / МАМА, НЕ СМОТРИ ТЕЛЕВИЗОР (ANTI – WAR SONG)

Has English subs, so it should be easy to understand for non Russians as well. Thanks for watching.

P.S.: It’s in The Guardian as well. Still waiting for a message to show up in our “Tagesschau Online”…

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A ‘Thank You!’ to BigBrotherAwards

Have you ever visited their site? Maybe you should…

I just read the BigBrotherAward 2019 in der Kategorie Verbraucherschutz (in German) which went to Zeit Online for their paywall which basically lets you choose to either pay with money or with your data – something that 75% of all online news magazines seem to do now as the article and speech said.

And yes, I’ve seen the same paywall at spiegel.de or heise.de – and no, that *is* not acceptable. If you click “yes, go on”, the heise guys for instance will send your data to >200 “partner” sites all over the globe – so I just asked a member of the EU commission if we can’t stop these practices, for instance with forcing them to add the option “yes to ads, but no to tracking”.

Maybe we should all say “no” instead, and boycott these data tracking sites? If they’d all lose their readers like the British “Times” which lost over 90% of their audience when using similar techniques, then maybe that would stop them… according to Wikipedia (search for something like “Paywall”), some US news magazines are already taking these trackers off…

Thanks to digitalcourage, DVD, ILMR, and CCC for supporting these BigBrotherAwards!

And to you, like always, thanks for reading.

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Support free software with your picture

If you’d like to see your tax money used for good, you can support the FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) with a pic, using their sharepic generator, like this:

Public Money? Public Code! campaign from the FSFE

If you don’t want to show your own pic, ask a friend if s/he will support it:

I <3 free software campaign from the FSFE

See their page. And thanks in case you’re supporting this as well.

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Кремль: Прекратить войну

Bundesregierung: ja zum Ausschluß Rußlands aus Swift

Everyone: stop trading and/or mining digital virtual money. That should stop them.

Come on, Oligarchs – even your own people don’t want this… oh, and I somehow like these guys… 🙂

Edit, from Wednesday March 9th, 2022: sometimes I wonder if no one has seen or remembers this movie (and again, in Russian)? I wonder if the guys who started this love their children, too?