From the Russian blogosphere "blows" dissidence
It seems that the martyr image of Russia will never bore anyone. So, according to Reuters , the blog subculture of the Runet is the native granddaughter of dissidence. The agency’s article tells about Russians intimidated by a tacit dictatorship, who have huddled in blogs and are sitting there, discussing social and political issues. There is nowhere else for them to argue - “the Russian media are bought by tycoons from the state and business, they are closed for free debates”.
The alignment is traditionally conducted on Western patterns. “In the West, you don’t need to look for places to discuss politics, books, any events,” says sociologist Ekaterina Alyabyeva in an interview with Reuters. In Russia, in her opinion, they are looking for such a place because civil society did not work out. In addition, the domestic press does not “give its readers the opportunity to object.” It can be concluded that a Westerner maintains a blog in a daily format solely because he managed to exhaust the remaining topics in free public discussions.
Meanwhile, the perspective in which Reuters presents facts and opinions is quite authentic to the moods of part of the Russian-speaking LJ community. These sentiments, as is known, are caused by the promotion of the company “Soup” , which, according to many people, “transferred users to the basements of Lubyanka” . In the material of the agency, this company also did not go unnoticed: only “dear Russians” were glad of the freedom possible in blogs, as “Soup” appeared, waving a license for the Cyrillic segment of LiveJournal . And, although the representatives of "Soup" responsibly stated that their partnership with SixApart (the owner of LiveJournal) lies only in the field of marketing, the degree of popular indignation has not yet slept. As proof of this, Reuters quotes bloggers in the spirit of "where is this button that will disconnect me from the service of" Soup "?".
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The article ends with the thought of the blogger Elizaveta Dobkina that the Russian blogging community is still endangering itself - akin to the one that threatened dissidents. "The FSB did not answer the question about the capabilities of this service to obtain information on Internet users," the agency clarifies, just in case.
The alignment is traditionally conducted on Western patterns. “In the West, you don’t need to look for places to discuss politics, books, any events,” says sociologist Ekaterina Alyabyeva in an interview with Reuters. In Russia, in her opinion, they are looking for such a place because civil society did not work out. In addition, the domestic press does not “give its readers the opportunity to object.” It can be concluded that a Westerner maintains a blog in a daily format solely because he managed to exhaust the remaining topics in free public discussions.
Meanwhile, the perspective in which Reuters presents facts and opinions is quite authentic to the moods of part of the Russian-speaking LJ community. These sentiments, as is known, are caused by the promotion of the company “Soup” , which, according to many people, “transferred users to the basements of Lubyanka” . In the material of the agency, this company also did not go unnoticed: only “dear Russians” were glad of the freedom possible in blogs, as “Soup” appeared, waving a license for the Cyrillic segment of LiveJournal . And, although the representatives of "Soup" responsibly stated that their partnership with SixApart (the owner of LiveJournal) lies only in the field of marketing, the degree of popular indignation has not yet slept. As proof of this, Reuters quotes bloggers in the spirit of "where is this button that will disconnect me from the service of" Soup "?".
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The article ends with the thought of the blogger Elizaveta Dobkina that the Russian blogging community is still endangering itself - akin to the one that threatened dissidents. "The FSB did not answer the question about the capabilities of this service to obtain information on Internet users," the agency clarifies, just in case.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4848/
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