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| Protest against Vladimir Putin United party over elections have escalated across social media, including Twitter and Facebook, with a flood of automated counterattacks. Photograph: Yana Lapikova/AFP/Getty Images |
Protests against president's party escalate across social media with flood of automated counterattacks and alleged hacking
Friday 9 December 2011
Miriam Elder in Moscow
guardian.co.uk
Russians have flooded Facebook and Twitter as they organise unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's United Russia party. But they are not alone. Thousands of Twitter accounts appear to have been created with the sole purpose of drowning out opposition voices by flooding the service's hashtag search function.
The automated attacks have dumped a blizzard of meaningless tweets with hashtags such as #Navalny, on which tweets about Alexei Navalny are collated, making it impossible to follow the flow of news about the arrested opposition leader. Many of the so-called "Twitter bots" have now been shut down.
The flood of fake tweets came after liberal websites, including the LiveJournal blogging platform, the website for radio station Ekho Moskvy and weekly journal Bolshoi Gorod , were shut down by distributed denial of service attacks on Sunday, the day of Russia's disputed parliamentary vote.
The website for Golos, an independent election monitor, was also shut down. Golos employees complained this week that their email had been hacked and inaccessible for several days. On Friday, tabloid Life News published employees' private emails, detailing correspondence with the US development agency – presented as "proof" that the group was acting on foreign orders to disrupt the Russian election.
The most interesting hack attack, however, came via a more antiquated instrument – the telephone. On Thursday, the liberal Yabloko party and newspaper Novaya Gazeta said their telephone lines had been paralysed by endless calls featuring a recorded female voice: "Putin is very good. Putin loves you. Putin makes your life happy. Love Putin and your life will fill with meaning. Putin does everything for you. Remember, Putin does everything just for you. Putin is life. Putin is light. Without Putin, life has no meaning. Putin is your protector. Putin is your saviour." Over and over again.
12 comments:
Putin is an emperor of Mafia.
ហួសពេលហើយខ្មែរល្ងង់ខ្លៅឯងរាល់គ្នា!
សរសេរខ្មែរក៏មឹនគ្រប់ជ្រុង សរសេរអងគ្លេស
ក៏មឹនគ្រប់ជ្រុង...មានតែធ្វើខ្ញុំកញ្ជះយួនប៉ុណ្ណោះ
Your dumb Khmer Kings are worthless..
Hun Sèn will be irrelevant in the very near future and there will be more and brighter Viet-Khmer/Khmer-Viet smarter ones to lead Viet-Cambodia...
«Vos ignorants Khmers, qu'est-ce-que vous allez faire à part d'être l'esclave des Viets!?»
We, Viet, have been doing everything we can to spare some of you dumb Khmer left over from the exceptionally-planned Killing Field...
The past is history...The winner always makes and rewrites history...
We, Viet, have been doing just that...and there is nothing you dumb Khmer can do about it! What was Khmer's is now Viet's...and it remains that way for all of you dumb khmer's life time
Let me tell you something else:
GOD already knows, dumb Khmer is hopeless. We, Viet, are already controlling Viet-Cambodia from top to bottom, from the Senate to the farm land...
Viet is everywhere in Viet-Cambodia from farmer to technician, from nurse to doctor, from firefighter to engineer, from rubber plantation owner/worker to Hun Sen's political advisor and bodyguards including Angkor Wat's owner...You all name it and Viet is there...Khmer doesn't do squat besides getting addicted to Viet's ass in Viet-Cambodia, even foreigners are enjoying it nicely and quietly too...
Once again, whether or not all you dumb Khmer surrender yourselves to Viet, Khmer is now deep-rooted Viet, and irreversibly so already.
Challenge me if all of you dumb Khmer can. We have millions of us (legally the majority thanks to that dumb Hun Sen) that will vote for Viet-Khmer candidate legally and democratically forever, even the outside world would support and agree and as a matter of factly, there is not much the outside world can do about it...
How Sam Raingsy and/or any of your worthless so-called dumb heroe(s) including the stupid dumb king Sihanouk of yours that just wants to reign and rule plan to win Cambodia back? The Federation of Indochina under Viet's protectorate is here to stay on this planet earth for real. How do all of you dumb Khmer think or plan to de-vietnamize it???
KRT is just a show to entertain the world. We, Viet, are that good and smart.
Can Khmer put up the second Killing fields to get rid of millions of legal Viet-Khmer citizen now like we, Viet, did?
Okay you dumb Khmer - put it up or shut up while we, Viet, are domesticating you for the bright future of the Federation of Indochina!
It's all too late for you dumb Khmer already!!!
Ms. Soap
P.s Think about how all of our Viet-Khmer/Khmer-Viet offsprings/Half-breeds would look beautifully and be smart like in our Federation of Indochina???
តើខ្មែរអាចសំឡាប់ប្រជាជន យួន ខ្មែរ រាប់លាន
នាក់បានដូចដែល វៀត ធ្វើនោះទេ?
ស្ដាប់ឮទេខ្មែរ ល្ងង់ខ្លៅ???
Once again, can Khmer put up the second Killing Field to get rid of millions of legal Viet-Khmer citizen now like we, Viet, did?
«Est-ce que vous m'entendez les ignorants Khmers?
Juste Pour me répéter:
Peut Khmer créer un deuxième «Killing Field» pour se débarasser des millions de Viet-Khmer qui sont maintenant les habitants légaux du Viet-Cambodge comme nous, les Viets, avions fait?»
KI-Media is yesterday news and ought to shut down for good or better yet, come kiss our Viet's ass now!
Our Viet's ass (80 millions) is resource #1. We defeated the French and the Americans just with our ass. We have suicidal commandoes to win the war. What do you dumb Khmer have? We, Viet, can let loose another million of our new fresh ass freely into Viet-Cambodia shortly...as per Hun Sen's agreement just to let him rule...
What can all of you dumb Khmer do to stop it?
«Vos ignorants Khmers, qu'est-ce-que vous allez faire à part d'être l'esclave des Viets!?»
តើខ្មែរល្ងង់ខ្លៅឯងធ្វើអីកើតទៅ ក្រៅពីធ្វើខ្ញុំយួន
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8:06 AM
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ហួសពេលហើយខ្មែរល្ងង់ខ្លៅឯងរាល់គ្នា!
សរសេរខ្មែរក៏មឹនគ្រប់ជ្រុង សរសេរអងគ្លេស
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ស្ដាប់ឮទេខ្មែរ ល្ងង់ខ្លៅ???
Putin is vital for Russia's stability and unity. The path for Russia forward is that of China's model.
If Russia puts too much emphasis on out of control democracy, it will be falling apart further.
Is that what the majority of Russians want?
8:06 AM
អាចោរយួនឥតសាសនា។
អាជាតិថោក នៅអាស៊ី ជនជាតិដែលថោកទាប
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តើឯងខ្លាំងជាមួយខ្មែរបានប៉ុន្មានឆ្នាំទៀតទៅ?
8:06 AM : ប្រទេសខ្មែរ សម្បូរខ្មែរចោលម្សៀត ដូចលោកឯងមែន។ ចោលម្សៀត គ្មានចេះអីក្រៅពីបន្ទោសបរទេសនោះទេ។ ដូចជាលោកឯងជាដើម តាំងខ្លួនជាយួនមកជេរខ្មែរ ចេញមាយាទមក ខ្មែរទាំងអាចម៍ មានតែមនុស្សភ្លើ លើ KI នេះតែប៉ុណ្ណោះ ដែលជឿថាលោកឯងជាយួនពិតមែន។
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ស្ដាប់ឮទេខ្មែរ ល្ងង់ខ្លៅ???
There is no sign of intelligence at all here on KI-Media. I am going to shut it down now.
Owner/Ceo Ki-Media
P. from Long Beach, CA
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