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This is interesting. It goes to show how an autoritarian government can fix some problems in a more effective way. You can remove terrorist propaganda from YouT
by mrkrabo 9y ago
This is interesting. It goes to show how an autoritarian government can fix some problems in a more effective way. You can remove terrorist propaganda from YouTube, but how do you stop the spread of those videos in private platforms or messaging applications?
And even if the first version of this spying app only checks for md5 sums, which is arguably useless, I'm sure they're working on something more effective.
- sa-mao 9y agoYou know how to fix the problem more effectively? try to find the root cause and fix it. It's simple and it works.
- mrkrabo 9y agoThe west has been trying to do that for decades. Things just get worse and worse. What do you propose?
- yorwba 9y agoThe West does not currently have much of a problem with violent separatism. Maybe someone got into a bar fight over Catalan independence or Brexit, but all recent conflicts I'm aware of were relatively peaceful. If you compare this to the situation in Northern Ireland, I'd say things have gotten much better.
- bsaul 9y agoyougoslavian people will beg to differ. Civil war in a european country leading to the partition of the country into multiple states based on ethnic and religious criteria happened in europe just 25 years ago.
- yorwba 9y agoI have a slightly different perspective on what counts as "recent", most likely because I am younger than that. I also looked up the Troubles for my previous comment; apparently they officially ended in 1998, which is even more recent. Take my comment as referring to the last 20ish years when I talk about things getting better.
- astebbin 9y agoOne might argue that Yugoslavia, then recently emerged from decades of dictatorship and still a communist Eastern European country, was not part of the ideological West at that time.
- DanBC 9y agoETA? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group)
- Insanity 9y agoI don't believe it is simple to fix. But you are right of course, the root cause is what you should aim for.
- josmar 9y agoWhat is the simple way for the Chinese government to find the root cause of muslim terrorism and fix it? The only simple fix (as in simple vs easy) would be genocide or giving them their own independent state. The first option is horrible, and the second is not in the interest of the Chinese gov.
- jansho 9y agoKindly please expand on what the root cause is and what the 'fix' might be
- em3rgent0rdr 9y ago> "can fix some problems" Ethnic separatism may be a problem to the Chinese state. But it is not a problem for the people or something that needs to be solved.
- jansho 9y agoTerrorism is so easily thrown around as a blanket term these days. As many others have pointed out, the motivation seems to be more separatist than religious.
- stupidstupid1 9y agoTerrorism has a meaningless definition. It's as meaningless as 'communism' was during the Cold War; or 'socialism' in American politics. It may as well be 'Fnord' for how it's used.
- dmurray 9y agoSeparatist movements fit well with a traditional definition of terrorism, though (something like "politically motivated violence by non-state entities", maybe confined to violence against civilians). Purely religious terrorism was the exception until recently.
- rwallace 9y agoSeparatism and terrorism are orthogonal. There are separatist movements that resort to murder, but there are also separatist movements that campaign peacefully.
- stepik777 9y ago> You can remove terrorist propaganda from YouTube It is not removed from YouTube, e.g. all ISIS songs (nasheeds) are available on YouTube.
- astebbin 9y agoI personally doubt this will help solve the problem. Reminding a restive population that you dominate and scrutinize every aspect of their lives, even those of people who follow the rules, is a great way to build more resentment against a state. It also instructs the real terrorists to avoid the publicly-compromised communication channels.