First things first: The Missing Link!
Dmitry Bogatov (maintainer for several Debian packages and a TOR exit node) was arrested in Moscow, accused of endorsing violence and mayhem. The Debian project reacted by - besides giving their moral support - revoking access rights based on his private key as a precaution, in case the key gets compromised.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @12:26AM (3 children)
sounds like government to me. clueless and violent.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday April 20 2017, @12:59AM (2 children)
What exactly, in its recent actions, makes you think that the Russian government is "clueless"?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:07AM (1 child)
When originally confronted with the allegations, Mr Kadyrov's spokesman Alvi Karimov said it was not possible that gays had suffered abuse because homosexuals "don't exist" in Chechnya.
"You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic," said Mr Karimov.
-- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/20/chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-denies-arrest-abuse-gays/ [telegraph.co.uk]
Russian news outlets are having trouble reporting exactly which image of the Internet's many Putin-gay-clown memes is now illegal to share.
-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/05/its-now-illegal-in-russia-to-share-an-image-of-putin-as-a-gay-clown/ [washingtonpost.com]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday April 20 2017, @05:21PM
That's not being clueless...