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The target was never bored, horny 14 year old kids -- it was the likes of WikiLeaks/Snowden sympathizers. Currently, military personnel and other public servan
by ihsw 13y ago
The target was never bored, horny 14 year old kids -- it was the likes of WikiLeaks/Snowden sympathizers.
Currently, military personnel and other public servants are barred from viewing any and all 'classified' content (WikiLeaks/Snowden material). This restriction will now be applied on a national level resulting in a variety of news websites being rendered inaccessible.
It's not if but when the censorship will be applied across the world. It's coming to nations whom are regarded as shining beacons of democracy (especially all of whom are in the sphere of US influence), and such censorship policies will be as untouchable as our ever-growing war budgets.
No politician wants to be the one responsible for tragedies resulting from rolling back censorship in the same manner no-one wants fingers pointed at them for reducing the defence budget.
- hahainternet 13y ago> The target was never bored, horny 14 year old kids -- it was the likes of WikiLeaks/Snowden sympathizers. This is stupid to such a level you should delete your account immediately. How exactly could optional ISP filters possibly ever target people who know about computers to any reasonable degree. It won't be applied nationally, and you're busy predicting the future when you don't even understand the present.
- adventured 13y agoAnd you should stop insulting people on Hacker News and consider rereading the guidelines.
- hahainternet 13y agoIf someone posts nonsense, then no possible response can ever be seen as non-insulting. What was posted was grade A total nonsense. So I can't see how I can tell the poster this without being insulting.
- ihsw 13y agoPlease don't get confused, I'm referring to normal people rather than the technologically adept. Is it so difficult to acknowledge that the blow-back from Snowden's documents would've been diminished had the news been prevented from reaching normal people? The nations look at China and see a populace that is pacified whom dare not speak against the government, and they see the Great Firewall as something to marvel in its pervasiveness. America's rivalry is turning to jealousy, and they see themselves as hindered by policies that China is unaffected by (free speech, freedom of association, etc).
- VLM 13y agoPretty close to a perfectly correct comment, but in the last line you misspelled "after" as "resulting from".