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Microsoft Not the Only Firm Blocking IM Service To US Enemies
ericatcw writes "It was reported last week that Microsoft had cut access to its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging service to citizens of five countries with whom the US has trade embargoes. Now, it turns out that Google and, apparently, AOL have taken similar actions. According to a lawyer quoted by Computerworld, even free, downloaded apps are viewed as 'exports' by the US government — meaning totally in-the-cloud services such as e-mail may escape the rules. Either way, there appear to be a number of ways determined citizens of Syria, Iran, and Cuba can get around the ban."
Your right. The west blows. So move to North Korea and then post to your hearts content. Oh wait ...
ron paul and...?
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
Are you considering suicide and wishing your mother had saved you the trouble 10 years ago?
And what do you mean by "remain?" Abortion isn't currently safe for anyone involved: certainly not for the human infant being violently ripped apart inside the one place that's supposed to be safe: her mother's womb. Certainly not for the woman who will carry a deep emotional wound with her for the rest of her life, unable to escape the knowledge that she murdered her baby, and possibly suffer a uterine cyst and be unable to reproduce again. Certainly not the father who has blood on his hands as well. And certainly not the doctor when he finally stands before his maker and has to account for his role in the slaughter of children which long ago dwarfed the Nazi Holocaust in scale.