Launched 11 years ago by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to combat online censorship, Operation Collateral Freedom currently enables 177 media outlets and press freedom websites that are blocked in 39 countries – more than half of them in Russia and China – to continue disseminating information online and keep reaching their public.

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By duplicating censored news sites onto mirror sites hosted on the servers of major Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), it allows those living under authoritarian regimes to access their content directly from a standard web browser, without needing to install a VPN (virtual private network). No fewer than 57% of the websites protected by RSF are blocked in just two countries – Xi Jinping's China (53 blocked sites) and Vladimir Putin's Russia (49 blocked sites).

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In 2025, RSF restored access to the website of Circle 19, an independent group that provides uncensored information about China. Beijing blocked its platform less than a year after it published a statement of principles denouncing state propaganda on 4 June 2024, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre [...] This initiative aims to provide resources showing that the right to information is deeply rooted in China's traditions, history and political system, contrary to Beijing's propaganda.

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Voice of Tibet, an international radio station broadcasting in both Tibetan and Mandarin, was given 16 mirror sites in 2025. RSF also unblocked the Uyghur Post website, one of the few Uyghur-language media outlets reporting on abuses by the authorities in Xinjiang, the autonomous region in northwest China where most Uyghurs live, which has become an information black hole as a result of the regime’s repression.

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Meduza is the leading independent Russian media outlet in exile and, in March 2022, became one of the first to benefit from Operation Collateral Freedom. However, every time Meduza created a mirror site, the Russian authorities were able to quickly block it. To counter this unprecedented threat, the generation of mirror sites was automated on an unprecedented scale using technology developed by RSF combined with the technical expertise of Meduza’s staff. As a result, 4,556 mirror sites had been created for Meduza by 2025, allowing it to receive a total of 1.9 billion content requests, making it the most visited site of all those benefitting from Operation Collateral Freedom.

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We're saving our superior civilization from the uncivilized hordes who savagely demand sovereignty.

In the war on US imperialism, I'm on the side of imperialism. You want to resist? Don't be an idealist, just accept your faith.

You can't make this up. Okay, maybe they do have a "Masters in American Foreign Policy". They must be posting straight from HQ in Langley.

A relative tells BBC those killed were civilians and not Hezbollah operatives, but the Israel Defence Forces says it was targeting "terrorist infrastructure".

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is this Little Bobby Tables?

Related:

This is in a PR where Shougo, another long-time contributor, communicates entirely in walls of unparseable AI slop text: https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/19413

Thank you for the detailed feedback! I've addressed all the issues:

Thank you for the feedback! I agree that following the Vim 8+ naming convention makes sense.

Thank you for the feedback on naming!

Thanks for the suggestion! After thinking about this more, I believe repeat_set() / repeat_get() is the right choice:

Thank you for the feedback. A brief clarification.

https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116176001750596207

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Spain on Sunday condemned the escalating violence in the occupied West Bank, criticizing illegal Israeli settlers’ impunity, the killing of civilians, and attacks on mosques, Anadolu reports.

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How much evidence does the world need that Israel is an apartheid state? That is a rhetorical question, those who can't see choose not to

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Shrine cabinet:

https://crazypeople.online/pictrs/image/7467f295-6114-4ea5-b6da-e90e1e9355f0.jpeg

ptetty common in Japan for me to be walking hours into the undeveloped forest and then all of a sudden there's a tiny anonymous shelter with a shrine inside a cabinet.

Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 4.0

There’s not much ambiguity in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Yet, as just reported, Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte has decided he has the power to simply cancel Montanans’ right to “peaceably assemble” and “to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” How? By restricting permits to gather at the Capitol — and “all state-owned or leased spaces” in the Capitol Complex — to weekdays only, between “7 a.m. and 6 p.m.”

Yep, you read that right. The old saying that “when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a Bible” has once again proved all too true as our Bible-clutching, flag-waving, MAGA patriot governor, says he won’t issue permits for any events that use sound stages on the weekends to, get this, save money.

This may be the first time you’ve heard about this draconian attempt to gut our Constitutional rights to free speech and assembly since Gianforte decided the public didn’t need to be — and wasn’t — informed of the permit change.

The single largest rally at the Capitol in recent times was the No Kings event that drew thousands of Montanans from all across our vast state to protest the policies of our current president who, like Gianforte, apparently doesn’t think citizens who disagree with their policies and how they’re running our state and nation have the right to gather and express their concerns and opposition. It’s no coincidence the change comes before the nationwide No Kings rally already scheduled for March 28 – a weekend.

We know the president doesn’t read, but surely Gianforte can see the simple language of the First Amendment does not include a provision that says these foundational rights can be canceled to “save money” — or for any other reason.

Moreover, Montana’s Constitution contains nearly identical language under Article II, Declaration of Rights, Sec. 6: “Freedom of assembly. The people shall have the right peaceably to assemble, petition for redress or peaceably protest governmental action.” Nowhere does it say these rights and freedoms can be taken away by a rule change.

Perhaps, being a mega-millionaire, Gianforte has forgotten that most people have to work during the week to support their families, pay their bills and keep a roof over their heads — all of which has become much more difficult. Clearly, the strong-arm “no weekends rally” rule intentionally counts on citizens not being able to afford to lose pay to attend a weekday rally.

The restriction is obviously aimed at protest rallies by non-MAGA citizens and groups. But farmers and ranchers who can’t afford to put diesel in their trucks and tractors or buy fertilizer for their fields may well want to rally on weekends, too. Why? Because the price of oil is expected to go as high as $200 a barrel due entirely to the hugely unpopular and unnecessary war the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran, which has closed the Straits of Hormuz through which 20% of the world’s oil flows every day.

History is replete with authoritarians who try to restrict citizens’ rights. But history is also replete with resulting violence when the options for peaceable protest are denied — and make no mistake, denying our rights and freedoms is exactly what Gianforte’s unconstitutional rule is intended to do.

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