The 2008 Greek "Alexandros riots" started on 6 December 2008, when 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Epaminondas Korkoneas, a special guard of the Greek Police, following an altercation between police and a group of youths in the Exarcheia district of Athens.

The killing resulted in large demonstrations, which in many cases escalated to widespread rioting, with hundreds of youths damaging property and engaging riot police with Molotov cocktails. Demonstrations and rioting later spread to several other cities, including Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city. Outside Greece, solidarity demonstrations, riots and, in some cases, clashes with local police also took place in a number of European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Bordeaux as well as Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, and the western Cypriot city of Paphos.

While the unrest was triggered by the shooting incident, many commentators described the reactions as expressing deeper causes as well, especially a wide-spread feeling of frustration in the younger generation about specific economic problems of the country, a rising unemployment rate among the young generation and a perception of general inefficiency and corruption in Greek state institutions.

    

    

[exclusive photos from a friend in Greece, thanks!]

…we are together

Oh my, can it get better than long haired boys playing piano?
Oh, and sorry for garbling your video Corey xD

[Found at Chutney’s Boys]

Objections to an advertisement in the Times Magazine, for children’s clothing. It showed a photo of a long-haired, topless child wearing baggy jeans and a necklace. The complainants objected that the advertisement was offensive, because it sexualised children and encouraged them to emulate adults, exploited the child in the photo and, especially, because the gender of the child was ambiguous and could encourage paedophiles.

Armani Junior advert slammed by Advertising Standards Authority

• British ISPs censor Wikipedia over ‘child porn’ album cover… who’s next?
• European Court of Human Rights says UK mustn’t save DNA data of innocents!
• Australia hires web spies to monitor anti-war campaigners, animal rights & environmental campaigners etc.
• Capitalism: Sick babies denied treatment because of a company’s patent on a key gene.
• “Sex” pictures of the Simpsons are child pornography in Australia.

• UK sperrt “Kinderpornoseiten”. Erstes Opfer: Wikipedia. Demnächst auch in Deutschland!
• BND nutzt Bundes-Trojaner gegen eigene Leute und Politiker, soviel zu “nur gegen Terroristen!!1”
• BND überwacht Welthungerhilfe in Afghanistan und der Clou: Die wird von SSchäubles Frau geleitet! LOL
• SPD und CDU wollten klammheimlich Deutsche Söldnertruppen legalisieren.
• In Griechenland schmeißt die Polizei mit Steinen nach dir, nicht umgekehrt…

[Found by Grim Kommando at Flickr]

[Found at TheMaleBeauty]

A fellow reader of milkboys was annoyed by the death rate of blogs dedicated to teenage boys at Blogger/Google. To give the bloggers out there a serious alternative to Blogger he decided to open his own blog service which wouldn’t delete your whole blog just out of paranoia. This was the moment boyblogs.net was born :)

Here is what you get:

• yourname.boyblogs.net address
• Based on the WordPress system
• 1 GB of blog space to start with
• Open multiple blogs on one account
• Import of your blog from Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal etc.
• Fabby host admin ;)

Sign Up Here!

UPDATE:
Due to the success of the project sign-ups are closed.
I’ll let you know when you can sign up again.

YouTube is getting even worse. They updated their guidelines about “sexual suggestive content”: The following is from their blog:

• Stricter standard for mature content - While videos featuring pornographic images or sex acts are always removed from the site when they’re flagged, we’re tightening the standard for what is considered "sexually suggestive." Videos with sexually suggestive (but not prohibited) content will be age-restricted, which means they’ll be available only to viewers who are 18 or older. To learn more about what constitutes "sexually suggestive" content, click here.
• Demotion of sexually suggestive content and profanity - Videos that are considered sexually suggestive, or that contain profanity, will be algorithmically demoted on our ‘Most Viewed,’ ‘Top Favorited,’ and other browse pages. The classification of these types of videos is based on a number of factors, including video content and descriptions. In testing, we’ve found that out of the thousands of videos on these pages, only several each day are automatically demoted for being too graphic or explicit. However, those videos are often the ones which end up being repeatedly flagged by the community as being inappropriate.

I ‘m pretty sure TheJoeFrom1993 could tell us a lot about what they think is “pornographic”. Sucking Ice Cream for example. I don’t even want to think about what they consider as “suggestive” if they rate harmless stuff like that as “pornographic”.

American prudery… It’s the only country where nudity is a crime. Thanks to that you have the most sexual deviants in the world. Congratulations! – Comment in the YouTube Blog

I heard from many people that they would love to read Destroyer but don’t want other people to see it laying next to their bed or causing attention at postal inspections in surveillance states like the USA. Your prayer was heard :) Issue 6 of Destroyer (more issues will follow hopefully) is available as a digital version in PDF format  at I Love Mags. Head over there for more details. Destroyer is more an art project that you should hold in your hands rather than reading it at your PC but this should be a good alternative for people who have to deal with ephebophobia (hey, I just made up this word lol) all over the world.