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Our overlords would like to shut down the Inter-tubes very very much.
The Internet has become an important factor in nurturing the extremist threat, surpassing universities and prisons as a place where dangerous ideas are developed and traded, the lawmakers said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46274740/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Owlet
(1,248 posts)Some things never change.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)opponents of Socrates.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)It's a MEANS of COMMUNICATION. Just like books or videos.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)They are chipping away at our internet freedom: SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and the plans for an internet ID are moving ahead swiftly.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002257531
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002257541
Add to this the fact that our government is now identifying both protesters and those who seek privacy on the internet with proxies as "potential terrorists," and we have a deadly serious problem here.
Call, write, oppose these measures, and Occupy Now, because they are putting structures into place to make it impossible to occupy later.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)twitter is now censored by countries right after a Saudi Prince bought major shares in it.
Imagine if he had been an Iranian?
drm604
(16,230 posts)Most of everything is linked to the internet.
Ideas have always spread, extremist and otherwise. Better communications just mean that ideas spread faster. Do we believe in the marketplace of ideas or not? If governments can censor dangerous ideas then they can censor any ideas.