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YouTube Used for Whistleblowing
fightmaster writes "A Lockheed Martin engineer with concerns about the safety and security flaws in a fleet of refurbished Coast Guard patrol boats turned to YouTube in order to publicize concerns he felt were being ignored by his employer and the government. From the article: 'The 41-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer had complained to his bosses. He had told his story to government investigators. He had called congressmen. But when no one seemed to be stepping up to correct what he saw as critical security flaws in a fleet of refurbished Coast Guard patrol boats, De Kort did just about the only thing left he could think of to get action: He made a video and posted it on YouTube.com.'"
See how improtant internet is for making important truth known ?
Can you conceive the fact that, had not there been channels like youtube, this scandal would left under the mat so that owners of some big contractor to the government could be able to sleep well at nights AT THE EXPENSE of security and lives ?
If you havent perceived it yet, ponder it now - if telcos get what they want, if net neutrality goes away, what is going to always happen will be what i told you.
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When I first saw the headline I thought.. cool blow job videos on YouTube. They finally allowed the X rated stuff.
Sadly, I'm disapointed.
I really don't have the inclination to search the depths of the net for specific examples, but suffice it to say that not only are Lockheed Martin products superior to British ones in all respects (which is why the Brits are buying the LM JSF instead of developing an indigenous carrierborne aircraft), but America in general posses both a technological and numerical superiority over Britain in every aspect except perhaps personal sidearms. Also, would someone explain to me what Saratoga, Trenton, Yorktown, and various other engagements were if not victories?
Last time we defeated you with a deficiency of both numbers and sidearms, this time you are OUR vassal, by your own PMs choice, so shutup about American inferiority. While I am a vocal opponent of both our idiotic president and the brain dead media in our country, pretending Britain is superior for blindly following America into the breach in a state so much weaker as to be laughable in any military comparison is utter foolishness, now shut up.