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>For example, it is inadvisable to look up information about abortion from within some U.S. states, war crime in Russia, or democracy and human rights in China.
by kgeist 4y ago
>For example, it is inadvisable to look up information about abortion from within some U.S. states, war crime in Russia, or democracy and human rights in China.
This seems to be an exaggeration. I live in Russia and just the word itself, "war crime", when taken alone out of conext, is safe and not punished for. Maybe I'm reading an article about American war crimes in Vietnam, who knows. I would never think it's dangerous to say this word. Unless it's a public statement, it's pretty safe. I don't know about China, but I doubt it's a huge problem in the US as well.
- croes 4y agoMaybe you don't get punished but maybe you get on an agency watch list and they check your other web interests
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- nicbou 4y agoThat's getting wildly speculative. A government potentially flagging a behavior that it's potentially monitoring, and potentially adding it to a potential watchlist for it?
- croes 4y agoHappened once just because of the wrong search terms https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4580654/michele-catalano-google-search-pressure-cookers-backpacks-bomb-scare https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4580654/michele-catalano-g...
- junon 4y agoSame thing in the US. Searching for "abortion" is not illegal. Anyone who thinks so is paranoid.
- voakbasda 4y agoIt is not paranoia when someone is actually out to get you.
- junon 4y agoSearching google for "Abortion" is not going to have someone after you.
- Fatnino 4y agoHaving a miscarriage after you googled the word abortion will turn a tragic situation into an even worse one.
- execveat 4y agoReturning to the topic of the article, how does DICT - a network protocol - makes a difference here? Are there any states where traffic gets recorded or queried for keywords? That seems like a huge privacy violation and would be a more interesting article.