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The free flow of information vs. censorship is the key social issue of our time. It is almost like having a front row seat to watching history repeat itself re.

The free flow of information vs. censorship is the key social issue of our time. It is almost like having a front row seat to watching history repeat itself re. Printing, radio and television.

bluekeybox 15y ago
"History repeats itself -- first time as tragedy, second time as farce" -- Marx. I suppose we are at the farce stage with the Internet.
- oelewapperke 15y ago
  A Marxist revolution is what brought these clowns into power in the first place. First, Marxists and other socialists topple the government, and then the Basiji started bombing and randomly killing people until they were the government. Iranian socialist turned out to be perfectly content to destroy the only organisation that protects them from these muslim lunatics, even know what they were doing ... Only to find that muslims will attack, rape, ... anyone they perceive as weak, including women, children, babies. They would enter hospitals, guns blazing, because "your life should be in the hands of allah". And socialists, well ... "fight for your right" is easy when you're not risking anything. "Non-conformism" is easy when it's really "conformism", when it's you standing between 1000s of like-minded individuals. When shit really hits the fan, and muslims fire into protestor crowds and kindergartens alike, socialists, even if they massively outnumber the lunatics ... surrender ... The story of the "islamic" revolution of Iran is a sad, sad, sad story and, frankly, changed my ideas about the "morality" of protesting against America (or Israel) for that matter. If what you're doing pushes absurd totalitarian ideologies, and you know this, you're not innocent. No matter how much arguments about human rights, abuses or whatever are made. Protesting works well against a deeply enlightened post-chrisian western government that would sooner commit suicide than knowingly killing a single protester. It doesn't work, at all, against "a tiny minority of extremists".
maverick2 15y ago
yeah .. and may be down the line registering a domain will also require a license. And the license <raj> will hail .. this should not be happening.
- taa4321 15y ago
  Count on it.
Apocryphon 15y ago
An informative lesson from a wise quote: http://goo.gl/XUYv7 http://goo.gl/XUYv7
moo 15y ago
One free flow of information can really drown out another free flow of information until it acts like censorship. Getting information out in the open is not cheap where we are dominated by corporate media.

The free flow of information vs. censorship is the key social issue of our time. It is almost like having a front row seat to watching history repeat itself re. Printing, radio and television.

bluekeybox 15y ago

"History repeats itself -- first time as tragedy, second time as farce" -- Marx. I suppose we are at the farce stage with the Internet.

oelewapperke 15y ago
A Marxist revolution is what brought these clowns into power in the first place. First, Marxists and other socialists topple the government, and then the Basiji started bombing and randomly killing people until they were the government. Iranian socialist turned out to be perfectly content to destroy the only organisation that protects them from these muslim lunatics, even know what they were doing ... Only to find that muslims will attack, rape, ... anyone they perceive as weak, including women, children, babies. They would enter hospitals, guns blazing, because "your life should be in the hands of allah". And socialists, well ... "fight for your right" is easy when you're not risking anything. "Non-conformism" is easy when it's really "conformism", when it's you standing between 1000s of like-minded individuals. When shit really hits the fan, and muslims fire into protestor crowds and kindergartens alike, socialists, even if they massively outnumber the lunatics ... surrender ... The story of the "islamic" revolution of Iran is a sad, sad, sad story and, frankly, changed my ideas about the "morality" of protesting against America (or Israel) for that matter. If what you're doing pushes absurd totalitarian ideologies, and you know this, you're not innocent. No matter how much arguments about human rights, abuses or whatever are made. Protesting works well against a deeply enlightened post-chrisian western government that would sooner commit suicide than knowingly killing a single protester. It doesn't work, at all, against "a tiny minority of extremists".

maverick2 15y ago

yeah .. and may be down the line registering a domain will also require a license. And the license <raj> will hail .. this should not be happening.

taa4321 15y ago
Count on it.

Apocryphon 15y ago

An informative lesson from a wise quote: http://goo.gl/XUYv7 http://goo.gl/XUYv7

moo 15y ago

One free flow of information can really drown out another free flow of information until it acts like censorship. Getting information out in the open is not cheap where we are dominated by corporate media.