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U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
GayBliss writes "The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1955) last month, by a vote of 404 to 6, that says the Internet is a terrorist tool and that Congress needs to develop and implement methods to combat it."
I'm sure glad we had the Firehose to filter out crap like this.
Oh, wait...
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darn.
I wanted to see them get lost planning where to send the tanks on the invasion of the internet... They have to find tubes big enough for the tanks after all!
Or GWB trying to decide which of the internets to invade.
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"Sirs, I respectfully suggest we begin an operation to download the Internet for further analysis. Budgetary requirements to fulfill this necessity will begin at 500 Billion USD, adjusted for our bad dollar value to approximately 800 Billion USD."
"I concur! Commence downloading! The sooner we start, the sooner we'll get to the bottom of this Internet conspiracy!!"
[[Thunderous applause]]
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
The heavens do not fall for such a trifle.
Does anyone else find it amusing that the number of votes it passed by was 404?
I guess to reflect what will soon happen to the internet...
(and the captcha was "congress". hmm...)
There are problems with your post:
(1) You apparently read the article. We don't "read" around here... we telepathically absorb article details from around the globe.
(2) You took time to derive logical deductions and causation factors from the ideas presented in the article. Way too much effort; your time would have been better spent trying to one-up the wild assertion that is the story headline.
(3) You implied that Congress has acted in anything less than a knee-jerk, know-knothing, insert-more-hyphenated-words-here manner. Anyone Slashdot user with half a brain knows that Congress has never produced any meaningful debate or results in all of history.
Sheesh, man... go drink some coffee and wake up, or something...
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I've seen plenty of terrorist propaganda too. For example, look at the Lancet Report which claims that not only around 650 000 people have died between 2003 and 2006 in Iraq due to bringing democracy to that country, but even more hienously it claims that at least 30% of those deaths were caused by direct coalition actions. Clearly, this study only serves to destroy the morale of our troops and it should not be permitted to exist on the web.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
Propaganda is all over the net. It doesn't take much effort to find it for any PoV,a nd often times, it finds you without you looking. The trickier propiganda is the more subtle kind - the kind that is either well developed or subtle.
But even trickier than that, is propaganda with correct spelling! I don't get it, you spelled it wrong six times, but also once correctly? What's up with that? Is it a signal to your al-Qaeda cell, or is "propiganda" propaganda for pigs or something?
404 Democrats Not Found.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
404: Intelligence not found.
I should have read the article, I just had my computer arrested and sent to jail for conspiring with terrorists.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
I've never seen any terrorist propaganda in the web
I see you've never been to this site!
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
As a voter from the Midwest, I couldn't let this one slide.
Ted Stevens is from Alaska.
I'm not sure if you are aware but Alaska is nowhere near the Midwest, the mountain states, or the South.
A Midwestern voter just corrected you.
Are you sure you aren't one of "Ted Stevens'"?
One of this generation's greatest thinkers, the comedian Gallagher, I think said it best:
"There's a reason 'Congress' begins with the word 'con'. 'Con' is the oppsosite of 'pro', so 'Congress' must be the opposite of 'progress'."
My friends, wiser words have never been spoken.
If a pion (n-) collides with a proton in the woods & noone is there to hear it, does lamdba decay into the source pa
Yeah, I made the same mistake. Now I regret waterboarding my router.
What do they do with the other 7 hours and 45 minutes? Read Slashdot, just like the rest of us!
Or maybe the real question is, if you work for Slashdot then what website do you go to when you're just wasting time? Cause if you're on slashdot, and you work for slashdot, then surfing slashdot is actually you working, which means you're not wasting time, which means...