THE HAGUE: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Thursday warned internet firms to avoid offering the "tools of oppression" to authoritarian
Clinton urged private companies to "embrace their role in protecting internet freedom" and ensure protection of ordinary people as well as political activists.
Welcome, to the repressive country of The United States of ChinRanistan. It is a new country founded in 2008 embodying the repressive tactics of China, Iran and Afghanistan [for good measure].
In ChiRanistan the internet is heavily censored and the Patriot Act all but guarantees that your [and my] privacy is compromised.
This is scary indeed because of the existence of arbitrarily defined “illegal websites.” Resistance from a Ragtag group of militants is working feverishly to fight the dictatorship"":
The Department of Justice takedown Thursday of Megaupload and sister site Megavideo triggered a rapid retaliation from the hacktivist group known as Anonymous, which proceeded to knock the DOJ's website offline.
Unless a website promotes child abuse, human trafficking/Torture/ Violence/Pornography or Animal abuse then there is NO such thing as an illegal website.
I contend that Congress should loosen it’s hold of oppression and pass the jobs bills so people can work and therefore afford to pay the exorbitant prices of movie tickets. Tickets that are expensive because of the outrageous salaries actors demand.
Shutting down a service such as Megaupload is nothing but grandstanding by a man who doesn’t seem to have an issue with taking out anyone else, but who will concede to the G.O.P every time.
1. It’s NOT watching poorly copied or otherwise compromised movies that are the impediment to the growth of the U.S. economy, it is a President who doesn’t seem to get it that he was elected to serve the interests of his supporters, not the intolerant, homophobic and hateful Teapublicans.
2. It’s NOT watching poorly copied or otherwise compromised movies that are the impediment to the growth of the U.S. economy, it is a Congress, that has wasted time in obstructing presidential plans to improve the economy.
3. It’s NOT watching poorly copied or otherwise compromised movies that are the impediment to the growth of the U.S. economy, it is a president the misguidedly thinks that apparel, and other counterfeit goods manufactured in China and sold in America are permissible .
China restricts Internet Access of it’s citizens, Iran wants to create a closed internet and now [Despite intense objection nationally and globally] the U.S. is implementing Big Brother measure to restrict our access to information on the internet.
This WILL not be mitigated by President Obama either lip synching or singing an Al Green classic at the Apollo theatre.
