CyberWars: Kazakh Journalist Describes Insidious New Gov't Censorship on the Web

Yevgeniya Plakhina, of Respublika.kz, talks about how the authorities in Kazakhstan have driven independent journalists to the brink of extinction. First, the TV stations that dared to speak the truth had their licenses yanked. Then newspapers were shut down.

Now, forced to publish only on the internet, the journalists are finding even that avenue of expression closed off, as they are subjected to constant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service, or Botnet) attacks. They are also monitored, harassed, beaten and jailed. And not cushy, US-style "Club Fed" jails either - these are the rotting remnants of the Gulag Archipelago, where the Siberian winds make survival a tossup.

This is one of a series of interview segments with Plakhina. For more on the vanishing freedom of the press in Kazakhstan, please visit my blog at www.artesianmedia.com/blog.

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News & Politics

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• Kazakhstan
• press
• freedom
• journalism
• censorship
• cyberwar
• DDoS attacks
• Respublika.kz
• reporters without borders
• editor

[saultube44]

She is SO cute, she can't interview me any day :D

I hope they recover soon.

[saultube44]

They try to hide their dirty laundry, everyone clean has nothing to hide, corruption falls by its own weight, so the corrupt people.

Keep the good work so truth prevail and you get rif of these useless politicians.