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New GCHQ Chief Says Social Media Aids Terrorists
An anonymous reader sends this report from Sky News:
The new head of GCHQ has accused social media websites of helping terror groups and called for closer ties with intelligence agencies. "'However much they [tech companies] may dislike it, they have become the command and control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals, who find their services as transformational as the rest of us." ... Mr. Hannigan said that smartphone and other mobile technologies increased the opportunities for terrorist activity to be concealed in the wake of the exposing of secret cables and documents collected by US and UK authorities by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Mr. Hannigan said that smartphone and other mobile technologies increased the opportunities for terrorist activity to be concealed in the wake of the exposing of secret cables and documents collected by US and UK authorities by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
First off, being a Muslim has nothing to do with screaming, crying, and arresting as soon as they express a view we don't like.
really?
Russia does not have anti-gay laws, you can be gay in Russia all you want and nobody cares. In fact the Daily show went out with a camera crew during the Sochi games trying to find the alleged persecuted gay people (in both Sochi and Moscow) and could not find any. That report was not discussed on any major News station of course, but it's there for your review as are other people doing similar reporting trying to find the alleged persecuted gay people.
What Russia does have is laws that prevent gays from demonstrating and promoting being gay in places where minors visit. You can go to the gay bar where it's adults only and put up all the banners you want promoting being gay, but not on a public street. It would be akin to the US making fast food advertising illegal (which in some contexts it is), then claiming that the US made fast food illegal. The latter is false, the former is true.
In my opinion, this is not discriminating or oppressive. It would be discriminating and oppressive if they had competing "Hetero Pride" and "Gay Pride" parades, or "Hetero Lifestyle" and "Gay Lifestyle" public debates and only one side received talk time. Neither receive talk time, which seems to be a fair policy.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
http://www.naharnet.com/storie... Islam is a dangerous, corrupt quasi-religious political system, founded on lies & murder. You are making the mistake of thinking in, I assume, a Christian world view. Yes a lot of Muslims wont' give a shit, many, many, many of them will .
The UK has already banned any information which might be useful to a terrorist. Literally, thats what the law says.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.