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| 'EU has Large-scale plans for surveillance of all communications' |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-24 17:19:21 |
| "A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims, as well as the most fundamental legal rules that underpin European democracy and the rule of law. The European Commission-funded CleanIT project claims that it wants to fight terrorism through voluntary self-regulatory measures that defends the rule of law. The initial meetings of the initiative, with their directionless and ill-informed discussions about doing 'something' to solve unidentified online 'terrorist' problems were mainly attended by filtering companies, who saw an interesting business opportunity. Their work has paid off, with numerous proposals for filtering by companies and governments, proposals for liability in case sufficiently intrusive filtering is not used, and calls for increased funding by governments of new filtering technologies." I'll just leave a link here to one of the most popular OSNews articles of all time. |
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| RE[2]: In Other news |
| By marcp on 2012-09-25 15:08:43 |
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Want some privacy extensions? here you go: - AdBlock Plus - NoScript - Ghostery - Flashblock - Cookie Whitelist, With Buttons - Google Disconnect - Facebook Disconnect Search engines which respects users privacy: https://startpage.com [lxquick] https://duckduckgo.com Privacy-oriented social networking: - Diaspora - Identi.CA - LiberTree OSs: - GNU/Linux [check out DsitroWatch] - BSD [FreeBSD/PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD] |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By marcp on 2012-09-25 15:13:04 |
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I'm just sick of this "bad torrents" scheme. Fighting torrent sites? are they closing the roads permanently just because some bad guys escaped with robbery and using particular roads? This is pure f#@$#%g nonsense! Don't let them convince people, that torrent is "bad". Torrent is just a technology. I use it to get legal stuff, because it's just faster to do it this way. I refuse to agree with this stupid, childish "bad torrents" scheme being used. |
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| Bush's Legacy Lives On |
| By benali72 on 2012-09-25 15:19:40 |
| The legacy of the great George W. Bush lives on... |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By kwan_e on 2012-09-25 15:19:43 |
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> It's funny that terrorist are supposed to undermine our happy way of living, yet it's the anti-terrorists schemes of our governments that does most damage to our liberties. I'm pretty sure that was the aim and operation of terrorism. To cause overreaction that ultimately ends in self harm, not the act of terrorism itself. That's how terrorism undermines our happy way of living. It's basically extreme trolling, and ultimately, it's how people handle themselves against trolls. |
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| RE[2]: Fascism returns!!! |
| By mistersoft on 2012-09-25 15:19:46 |
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Perfect response! I think we all totally knew The Trapper was being ironic. but perfect response anyway. --To be honest, from my point of view I wish that so knowingly, so willfully even undermining our supposedly democratic processes ought to be a criminal offence!-- "incitement to bypass current legislature" or something. the people behind this ought to face such charges, t'were it possible. "IMHO" |
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| RE[3]: In Other news |
| By Lennie on 2012-09-25 17:35:47 |
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I believe I have my privacy sorted pretty well thank you. But I'm in the ISP business and I didn't see such clear trends like that, so I wonder where those numbers are from. I can imagine a few things which might cause such numbers, but I would just like to see them. |
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| RE[3]: Fascism returns!!! |
| By Fennec_Fox on 2012-09-25 17:43:36 |
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As a matter of personal opinion, this is a direct consequence of a 2-party system. Such rigid setting automaticaly results in a boolean choice - there is no middle-ground, 3rd alternative (real one), etc. "Fuzzy logic" concept is not permitted. Polarization / confrontation is built into the system. Red and Blue can not and will not work together. By definition. Under these conditions, defeating the opponent becomes the ultimate goal in itself - everything else is secondary. It is more evident in Republican philosophy, where all proposals from the Democrats, - however constructive and sensible they might be, - are automatically rejected, opposed, blocked, filibustered for one reason only - they came from the "other" camp, therefore we will fight them. Full stop. Dems are better at compromizing, but just barely. Time to change the entire polytical system, non? :) |
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| RE[4]: Fascism returns!!! |
| By Alfman on 2012-09-25 18:45:44 |
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Fennec_Fox, Doh, I couldn't give you +1, but it's the truth. The bipartisan stage is horrible at promoting good representation. All to often we have to vote on politicians who are most likely to win instead of those who have the best ideas. |
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| RE[2]: Somehow... |
| By nej_simon on 2012-09-25 19:03:35 |
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> That did not take long... The current world view involves blame... blame others, never look at yourselves, after all, subjectivity is where it's at! What do you mean "blame others, never look at yourselves"? Of course we blame our politicans for doing things like this. But that doesn't mean the US should get away if they're involved, and history has taught us that they usually are. Want examples? Here: http://falkvinge.net/2011/09/05/... |
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| RE[2]: Fascism returns!!! |
| By ilovebeer on 2012-09-26 16:44:16 |
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> While in EU this sort of things need to be done behind close doors not to anger the population, in USA everything is done in name of "freedom" and "liberty". Openly! And everyone applauds it because peopled dont want to be like the "socialists from Europe". Some of them: -NSA Call database and warrant less surveillance -USA Patriot/Homeland Security/etc Act -Indiscriminate use of NSLs -Plus the good old MPAA/RIAA/etc lobbying in congress. So basically you don't know anything about the American public. I don't think you could have wrote that any more backwards. |
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