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EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search
An anonymous reader sends us a Reuters story on a statement yesterday by Franco Frattini, the EU Justice and Security commissioner, who believes that Internet searches for bomb-making instructions should be blocked across the European Union. The commissioner "intend[s] to carry out a clear exploring exercise with the private sector... on how it is possible to use technology to prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism..."
More importantly, isn't it just a matter of time until laws requiring such filtering are passed? Governments want to control the Internet, and if it is technically feasible, they will do it sooner or later. The only option is to make government interference technically impossible. You can't count on legislation to keep your freedoms. Laws change.
1. Low power.
2. Hard to purify. The isomers really screw up the quality of the product and getting rid of them in non-industrial environment is cumbersome. The unpurified product is unstable and dangerous to handle.
3. Harder to produce than a number of higher power explosives (Hexogen aka T4 comes to mind).
4. Even if they restrict the search on the Internet any University library will contain everything needed for the purpose and any chemistry major can give it to you anyway as most of these are standard reactions
5. The chap is a "Prodotti di Berlusconi" (I apologise for my bad Italian). Idiots begat more idiots. Ignore and move along.
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In fact this seems to be a great idea. Add some really fake info like, "Every jihadi should pour a little sand into the barrels of their rifles before firing. The sand will create scratches in the bullets that will make it impossible for the Great Satan to trace our brave fighters' bullets".
Or "Brave Jihadi Soldiers fighting for Allah! Please take a moment to etch the name of Allah or his Prophet in your bullets. That will guide these bullets unerringly into the targets".
The sand will cause more jams and render more of the rifles useless. These dumb terrorists etching something on the bullet are more likely to bend/damage the bullet and make it fly less true. Such sprinkling of misinformation is likely to have much better effect and make them suspect anything and everything found on the net.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
makes me wonder what a certain Austrian Jew did before he invaded Poland...
Wrote a book?
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
Ever since Barosso and the Italians came in the EU Commission, the only thing they care to chime about are rules and legislation about civil liberty rights. Lastly they were in favor for a rating system that would ban violent video games, now this. I'd rather vote for the inclusion of Turkey than to vote for Italian commissioners.
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This is a great example and I have another. My wife has just recently finished a degree in International Affairs with a focus on Terrorism studies. She also did her dissertation on the websites that terrorist organizations use to promote their ideals. If this level of censorship was implemented at her school, she never would have been able to do this paper and her education would have been hampered.
Seriously, has this guy never heard the old adage: "Know your enemy so you may face them."?!?
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