There is much discussion here on restricting access to free software source code and packages from Russia as a means to stymie their war effort.
Here I provide some links on an effort in another direction: getting the truth about the war into Russia. Ukraine: Spam website set up to reach millions of Russians https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60697261 A Norwegian computer expert has created a website enabling anyone to send an email about the war in Ukraine to up to 150 Russian email addresses at a time, so that Russian people have a chance to hear the truth their government is hiding. Opinion: Why the West should help Russians learn the truth about Putin's war in Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/07/west-must-help-russians-learn-truth-about-war-ukraine-independent-media/ --- I don't totally agree with the use of spam. One measure I would like fellow list subscribers to consider is to study media control, and popular reaction thereto, in totalitarian societies. Some members may have relevant information in the form of household legends. My father was born in Osaka in 1934. He was in primary school during the last year of WW2. He recalls that initially, people supported the war effort and believed what they were being told in the news. The media was under tight government control at that time. At around early 1945 that changed. In the last months of the war the official news had little credibility. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
