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By: Jackie KerrDate: 12 Aug 2011Categories: Turkey, Russia, United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, PrivacyMajor stories this week relate to Internet filtering in Turkey, new actions by the hacker group Anonymous, reactions to social media's use in the London riots, and the submission of a new anti-extremism law in Russia in which blogs are subject to similar regulations to those of mass media outlets.0 comment(s)
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By: Jackie KerrDate: 04 Aug 2011Last week, the Russian language segment of the popular blogging platform LiveJournal experienced a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Frequent attacks of this nature in recent months are creating unease in the blogging community, making many wonder how this could affect public discourse going into next December’s State Duma elections.