http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar...re/248612/
I'm usually very slow on the news, but I've been hearing this lately...
So there are some people discussing laws to censor the internet?? Really?
I've been living in US soil for some months now, and I was really shocked with how (pointlessly) repressive the state is. There are quirky little laws for every sort of random threatless thing... it feels suffocating, but I sort of got used to it, and I'll be leaving soon, so I didn't put much thought to it.
A Danish friend of mine said it elegantly: "Here in the US they have all these laws for these really minor things, but the big things (like carrying guns, waging war) is actually legal and even facilitated"
I heard a story from an Austrian friend of mine (yeah guys, I heard it, I won't be able to put an official testimony here, so if you don't believe it, I'm sorry). She's been living here in Hawaii as well, and her best friend here was dating a guy in the military for a couple of months. The guy got paranoid over her and, having access to the military computer technology that scans the internet, he searched her out and found photos of her with another guy (which she was dating before and not cheating) and they broke up. My point is: how easy it is to invade people's privacy using military technology?
And now there is this stalk about the censorship of the internet! Repress and homogenize!
I really don't get this... The US feels like a totalitarian state, with this paranoid feeling hovering over our heads all the time, very close to a Orwellian distopia, or soon to be.
This post was inspired by Roosh's last tweet: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comment...e_the_usa/
Anyhow, I end this thread with a quote from V:
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Just an outsider's perspective.
I'm usually very slow on the news, but I've been hearing this lately...
So there are some people discussing laws to censor the internet?? Really?
I've been living in US soil for some months now, and I was really shocked with how (pointlessly) repressive the state is. There are quirky little laws for every sort of random threatless thing... it feels suffocating, but I sort of got used to it, and I'll be leaving soon, so I didn't put much thought to it.
A Danish friend of mine said it elegantly: "Here in the US they have all these laws for these really minor things, but the big things (like carrying guns, waging war) is actually legal and even facilitated"
I heard a story from an Austrian friend of mine (yeah guys, I heard it, I won't be able to put an official testimony here, so if you don't believe it, I'm sorry). She's been living here in Hawaii as well, and her best friend here was dating a guy in the military for a couple of months. The guy got paranoid over her and, having access to the military computer technology that scans the internet, he searched her out and found photos of her with another guy (which she was dating before and not cheating) and they broke up. My point is: how easy it is to invade people's privacy using military technology?
And now there is this stalk about the censorship of the internet! Repress and homogenize!
I really don't get this... The US feels like a totalitarian state, with this paranoid feeling hovering over our heads all the time, very close to a Orwellian distopia, or soon to be.
This post was inspired by Roosh's last tweet: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comment...e_the_usa/
Anyhow, I end this thread with a quote from V:
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Just an outsider's perspective.