#electoraldictatorship — Public Fediverse posts

Russian software helps suppress protests in Georgia

Seen today this article: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/russian-surveillance-face-recognition-georgia/ Seen and Silenced: How Russian Surveillance Software Suppresses Georgian Civilians Rights Over the past two years, the Georgian government has built a comprehensive face recognition enforcement system, procured by a Moscow-based company with ties to the Federal Security Service (FSB). The impact on demonstrators is appalling.

https://legends.house/russian-software-helps-suppress-protests-in-georgia/

Censorship is boring

Here quote from Civil.ge newsletter: Nodar Meladze, head of the news service at another opposition-leaning channel, TV Pirveli, said the Communications Commission (ComCom), Georgia’s state media regulator, “is attempting” to “prohibit” the channel from using the terms “prisoners of conscience,” “oligarch,” and “political prisoners” in news broadcasts. The case appears to be one of those in which the regulator targets opposition-leaning TV channels under the 2025 laws […]

https://legends.house/censorship-is-boring/

This is fascinating

This is fascinating to see how organizations, institutions, and people in Europe, such as OSCE PA leadership, can't see difference between polarization and total incompatibility with a dictatorship.

https://legends.house/this-is-fascinating/