Belarus said to restrict access to foreign websites
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[QUOTE=Bobie;34035239]does belarus even have any websites[/QUOTE]
Only tractor fan sites
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;34035333]The fuck does piracy have to do with this? Or did you not read the article?[/QUOTE]
Thats the excuse, of course this country sees right through it and is just censoring everything without the half assed piracy excuse. :v:
We all know SOPA will not effect piracy in the least and will only harm legit websites, why are we kidding ourselves, any braindead monkey could understand this. This is an intentional move by all the corporations who would benifit by such censorship.
[QUOTE=gamefreek76;34043573]My guess is that they've seen how the internet helped the revolts in egypt and tunisia, so they're scared.[/QUOTE]So they decide to ban shopping on amazon? That sure helps from revolting, now people can't buy their battle gear.
Belarus is a shit-hole anyways. And besides I don't see how they are going to take the money from Amazon...
[QUOTE=werner;34054284]Belarus is a shit-hole anyways. And besides I don't see how they are going to take the money from Amazon...[/QUOTE]
It fared and still does fare a lot better then most former SSR's, mainly by not sacrificing all its industry to jump into market opportunities.
It could be a lot worse. Imagine a tiny Russia with no huge amounts of oil or resources to exploit, and no massive arms exporting business.
[QUOTE=Conscript;34054345]It fared and still does fare a lot better then most former SSR's, mainly by not sacrificing all its industry to jump into market opportunities.
It could be a lot worse. Imagine a tiny Russia with no huge amounts of oil or resources to exploit, and no massive arms exporting business.[/QUOTE]
I believe almost all former SSR countries do better than Belarus, expect Balkan shit holes
[QUOTE=werner;34054486]I believe almost all former SSR countries do better than Belarus, expect Balkan shit holes[/QUOTE]
That is completely not correct.
Most republics that went through shock therapy didn't do so well. Belarus avoided the fate many warsaw pact members and soviet republics endured by keeping its state-managed economy instead of auctioning off its assets and going with the flow of the market. There's only a few success stories after the collapse, such as the baltics and poland.
Also the balkans were not part of the USSR. Think yugoslavia.
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