The Ukrainian Government is Now Mass Texting Protestors with Warning Messages

Earlier today, I highlighted the ingenious use of mirrors by Ukrainian protestors to utilize non-violent, creative tactics to make powerful political statements. With violence escalating in the past 24 hours, it appears the Ukrainian government is now breaking out technological Big Brother by sending mass text messages to protestors warning them that they are being watched.

Remember: Your Government Loves You.

From CNET:

Your government wants to protect you. Because your government cares. Because your government works for you.

Except, that is, when you don’t like your government. That’s when your government works against you.

Take the Ukraine, which several people are trying to do just at the moment.

It’s decided to show what open government is really about. So it’s openly texting its citizens to tell them when they’ve been spotted protesting against the government.

As The New York Times reports, the powers-that-be are being powered by phone technology that identifies any cell phone that happens to be adjacent to where protesters are clashing with the uniformed officers of the state. (Protesting, you see, has suddenly been made illegal.)

Text messages are reportedly being sent that say: “We can see you!!!”

Yes, I have inserted quite some paraphrasing here. The texts actually say: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

Full article here.

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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2 thoughts on “The Ukrainian Government is Now Mass Texting Protestors with Warning Messages”

  1. Bullshit! 99% of all Ukrainians are using multiple prepaid phone cards without any registration of name and address. How they will identify people with randomly phone numbers?? In Germany you have to serve your name and address even for a prepaid number. I know it for sure because a live in Ukraine.

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  2. Not bullshit… It’s called geo-targeting… used broadly as a marketing tactic by various companies to drive traffic which is around local events, using proximity radius of cell service.

    God save Ukraine.

    This conflict runs deep. The Bolsheviks murdered 10 million in the 30’s under Stalin’s government by starvation, and systematically transplanted ethnic Russians onto the land and into the villages… affording Walter Duranty the opportunity to use his NYT seat as a nest for the coverup of a genocide that the population of Ukraine has now felt for generations to come. It’s coming to a head… Now the dying soviet machine in Ukraine is thrashing.

    My heart goes out to our friends and family in Ukraine.

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