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In America they leave the internet connected through the protest, the better to gather evidence.
by rdiddly 6y ago
In America they leave the internet connected through the protest, the better to gather evidence.
- 10000truths 6y agoThey can do that because the social media websites that a vast majority of people use all fall under US jurisdiction, so obtaining evidence is just a subpoena away. I guarantee you that the US government would more strongly push for Internet censorship if the US protests in the past four years were organized over, say, Vkontakte.
- rdiddly 6y agoYou can bet that anything happening on Vkontakte gets vacuumed up by the NSA and can be used as evidence too. The real reason blackouts don't happen is probably because it would be too disruptive to business.
- seniorivn 6y agovk is a bad example, some e2e encrypted anonymous service would have not effect