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The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea
Nrbelex writes "While other restrictive regimes have sought to find ways to limit the Internet — through filters and blocks and threats — North Korea has chosen to stay wholly off the grid. The New York Times discusses the total lack of 'net access facing the North Korean state, and what it means in the long term." From the article: "The South was illuminated from coast to coast, suggesting that not just lights, but that other, arguably more bedrock utility of the modern age -- information -- was pulsating through the population. The North was black. This is an impoverished country where televisions and radios are hard-wired to receive only government-controlled frequencies. Cellphones were banned outright in 2004. In May, the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York ranked North Korea No. 1 -- over also-rans like Burma, Syria and Uzbekistan -- on its list of the '10 Most Censored Countries.' That would seem to leave the question of Internet access in North Korea moot."
Hey, we're allowed to leave. We're just too stupid and think things will fundamentally get bettter with a change to the Democrats next month...Of course, it will only be worse if the Republicans win.
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The USA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed that airlines cruise lines, and operators of all other ships and planes -- including charter flights, air taxis, fishing vessels, etc. -- be required to get individual permission ("clearance") from the DHS for each passenger on all flights or ocean voyages to, from, or via the USA. Unless the answer is "Yes" -- if the answer is "no" or "maybe", or if the DHS doesn't answer at all -- the airline wouldn't be allowed to give you a boarding pass, or let you or your luggage on the plane.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
No: you'd have about 23 million, although the crux of what you're arguing is true. Both South Korea and China would have to essentially fence the North Koreans in, at least until the people and infrastructure achieve some measure of stability and normality. That might be 20 years or more.
On a tangential note, North Korea is a good example to hold up to the people who ask how the Holocaust happened: countries are more interested in their own self-interest than they are in any abstract ideas about justice or fairness or even treating people humanely.
if you've ever read any chomsky...
We need a new Godwin's Law.
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