Paul Goble
Staunton,
March 10 – Fifteen thousand Russians in Moscow and hundreds more in cities and
towns across the Russian Federation went into the streets to protest against
the Putin regime’s plans to restrict Internet freedom. The placards they carried and the comments
they made say everything about what they feel – and they should make the
Kremlin nervous.
Below
is a selection of those reported by various Russian sites, which fortunately
are still free to do so:
·
“This is the weakest,
more shameful and more petty power which ever existed in Russia.”
·
“The Internet is
the Last Line of Defense.”
·
“If they take
away the Internet, what will be left?”
·
“Hands off the Internet!”
·
“You can’t block
everyone!”
·
“This is Our Country:
Russia will be Free!”
·
“Spring is
inevitable!”
·
“Are we going to
catch up and surpass Belarus?”
·
“Back to the
USSR”
·
“1937 is
Returning”
·
“Repressions
Reflect Powers’ Fear of the People”
·
“Comrade! Demand
Internet Freedom!”
·
“If They Hate a
Free Internet, It Means We’ve Already Won!”
·
“We
need a new tsar”
·
“I
don’t respect [the government]”
·
“The
telephone is the weapon of the proletariat”
·
“The
Runet will not become a second television”
·
“Today,
the Runet with a Chinese firewall; tomorrow, Russia as a Chinese colony”
(rusmonitor.com/samaya-slabaya-pozornaya-i-zhalkaya-vlast-kotoraya-kogda-libo-byla-v-rossii.html,
usmonitor.com/internet-poslednyaya-liniya-oborony-miting-protiv-izolyacii-runeta-10-marta-2019-14-00.html,
belsat.eu/ru/news/esli-otobrat-internet-chto-ostanetsya-kak-moskva-protestovala-protiv-izolyatsii-runeta/,
svobodaradio.livejournal.com/3887226.html,
sibreal.org/a/29813071.html,
dailystorm.ru/photo/miting-protiv-izolyacii-runeta,
ehorussia.com/new/node/18066,
and the-village.ru/village/city/gallery-city/343741-izolation-runet).
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