A Norwegian computer expert has made a system for volunteers to email millions of Russian people about the war
A Norwegian computer expert has created a website enabling anyone to send an email about the war in Ukraine to up to 150 Russian email addresses at a time, so that Russian people have a chance to hear the truth their government is hiding.Millions of messages are being received with the same intriguing subjectThe message appears in Russian with an English translation and it begins: "Dear friend, I am writing to you to express my concern for the secure future of our children on this planet.
It's one of a growing number of unique ways that hackers, activists and every day people around the world are trying to reach out to Russian people online to circumvent media blocks and censorship. One Polish Twitter user'sElsewhere hacker groups claim to have defaced Russian news websites with messages to Russian people to "stop Putin".
The 50-year-old Norwegian, who runs a computer network business, doesn't want his surname to be published for fear of retaliation from the Russian authorities. He says he felt compelled to do something after becoming increasingly anxious about the possibility of World War Three.His website is circumventing Russian censorship through a mix of clever computing and people power.
People are also able to personalise the contents too, to increase the chances of getting their email read.Some foreign news websites are still accessible from Russia, but the BBC is blocked Fabian says some accounts will be less active than others and in some cases the email may end up in the junk mail folder. But many of the messages are being read, he says, and some Russians are replying.Alex, also in Norway, was asked to test the system by Fabian's team, but has kept sending emails since.
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