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3 years after uprising in Belarus – political situation and repressions in the coutry | presentation [ENG]

Zentralwerk - Großer Saal Riesaer Str. 32, Dresden

Presentation about repressions in Belarus and anarchists movement in exile In August 2020 belarusian people rose against dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko hopying to overthrow a regime, existing in Belarus since 1994. Several months of protests ended up in mass wave of repressions and political migration from the country. With thousands of political prisoners out of […]

Überwachung, Social Media und Repression am Beispiel von Belarus/Surveillance, social media and repression using the example of Belarus

Zentralwerk Riesaer Str. 32, Dresden

Authoritarian states are normally considered primitive brutal forces that are smashing the popular movements with direct mass violence. It is rare that the modern technologies are used systematically to repress the people. In Belarus authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko in last years developed good understanding of technologies and how they can be used to repress […]

Vortrag “How Technology helps to repress people in dictatorship on example of Belarus”@Zentralwerk

Salon – Zentralwerk Risaer Straße 32, Dresden

Snowden documents told not only the general public how horrible and dangerous surveillance is. It also gave a huge push for the capitalist market to weaponize surveillance. With more and more tools coming to the "market" available only to the state players, smaller authoritarian regimes got possibility to start using technology for surveillance and repressions […]