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France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says (dailydot.com)
Patrick O'Neill writes: Despite requests from police following the deadly Paris attacks, France will not ban the Tor anonymity network or public Wi-Fi, Prime Minister Manual Valls said on Wednesday."A ban of Wi-Fi is not a course of action envisaged," Valls responded on Wednesday. Nor is he in favor of a ban on Tor, which encrypts and masks users' identifying data. "Internet is a freedom, is an extraordinary means of communication between people, it is a benefit to the economy," Valls added.
Vive la France
Those shouting "Anarchy" in the face of Libertarians are simpleton binary choices. And because they cannot fathom liberty, they are on the side of the Statists (Socialists, Fascists, Nazis ...). Understanding that statism tends towards tyranny, I've chosen to side with liberty. Being free is messy. Fascists always run on a platform of order (at least the trains run on time).
Me, I would rather play in the mud than be afraid of tyrannical order.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
It's a vent for angry people to express their anger in a non-destructive manner, rather than get more frustrated to the point of actions.
Anonymous speech is a way for them to be confident that their words won't bite them in the ass if they have to express extreme anger.
See, when you do mass surveillance, and you say "your words are watched so watch what you say", you are actually saying "your words are watched by people with their world view and their grudges and their opinions and biases, so be careful not to contradict their world view, or trigger their grudges or contradict their opinions". As if there is a ruling class and a ruled. Slaves and masters. It drives extremism too.
So we have this right. The right to free speech, and we have this other right, the right to privacy, and you surveillance lot, you need to get back within society and respect those rights. The UK in particular, what you are doing in the donut, its not legal.You know its not legal, you know they keep trying to pass the damn surveillance law, you know Parliament keeps rejecting it, and you know Parliament is the top body above Cameron, yet you keep doing it anyway. You need to come back within the boundaries of the UK system.
We had Jacqui Smith's soundbite: "the right to life trumps the right to free speech", it's a false dichotomy. Suppressing basic rights drives extremism. We booted her out of office, and good riddance. Parliament said no. Now we have that other woman in Home Secretary (they can't put men in that office because their porn surfing history is leverage to foreign powers) and she is trying the same "what if your kids die because you don't let us control free speech?" She won't last long either.
Stop following these surveillance idiots, get back within the legal framework of the democracy. /rant