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China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com)
A (truly) anonymous Slashdot reader quotes Engadget:
China isn't slowing down in its bid to silence online political opposition. As of October 1st, the country will require that tech firms hold on to records of the real identities of everyone posting comments on internet message boards. This is to discourage "false rumors, filthy language and illegal messages," according to the government. Of course, it's that last part that Chinese officials are really interested in -- they know you're less likely to challenge the political order if investigators can easily track you down.
The timing of this identity requirement, the VPN restriction and other crackdowns (such as an investigation into internet giants for allowing material that "harms the social order") isn't coincidental. China's ruling party has its next national congress later in 2017, and it has a habit of ramping up censorship around these gatherings to discourage criticism of party policies.
The timing of this identity requirement, the VPN restriction and other crackdowns (such as an investigation into internet giants for allowing material that "harms the social order") isn't coincidental. China's ruling party has its next national congress later in 2017, and it has a habit of ramping up censorship around these gatherings to discourage criticism of party policies.
Or rather, fuck the Chinese government. I'm sure the people are swell.
There are calls by bureaucrats for similar measures in the EU to do the same thing. It's not as crazy as some people think.
Make SELinux enforcing again!
Facebook can do business as its own wishes, and yet not be doing the same thing at all as a government compelling all businesses.
As usual, Dumb-and-Buffoonish, you can't bother to get past your own mendacity.
Of course, Facebook was not even the first to implement such a system, so you couldn't even get that right.
Gotta be honest, Mexico is pretty handy if you don't mind paying bribes and massive violence that the Federales/policia are willing to ignore. La drugas es no mucho dinero y la pequenas es muy caliente.
Err... I'm unable to spell in Spanish.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
any day now. Yup. Any day now. Right after we call out Saudi Arabia for it's civil rights abuses and treatment of women. In other news, the new iPhone 8 looks pretty sweet.
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No, it's pretty crazy. What is crazy is not seeing the absurdity of this. It's kinda disappointing that people ignore the value of anonymous speech. When faced with retaliation, you tend to not feel comfortable freely expressing yourself.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
So, that's what you're going with? Russians did it? The Russians made Hillary lose Pennsylvania? How the hell does ANY Democrat lose Pennsylvania? Or Michigan, for fuck's sake? PA, MI, *and* Wisconsin and somehow TEH COMMIEZ did it?
Now, I bet the discussions in the Michigan union halls and the Pennsylvania VFWs went something like this: "You know Mitch, with the economy so good and America so respected in the world, I was totally going to support Hillary continuing Obama's work, but then I found out that Donna Brazile was feeding her CNN's debate questions. Also, until Comey reminded me, I had totally forgotten Hillary was under FBI investigation for doing what would have gotten me sent to Leavenworth if I had done it when I was in the Navy. So, despite loving all the Democrat policies that have made my life a paradise, especially the idea of a law allowing grown men in dresses to loiter in my tween daughter's restroom, I'm voting for Trump. Oh, and I'm a deplorable racist and hate science. Also, sexism."
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Except most right-wingers espouse a minimalist Federal government, are pro-firearms-rights, anti-abortionists, religious, and generally favor a strict constructionist interpretation of the US Constitution, with all those pesky individual rights enumerated. Yeah, definitely a right-winger's paradise there.
Authoritarian governments don't really favor the left OR right. They just favor themselves.
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And it's hard to think Trump won anything.
He didn't. Hillary lost, and you guys have a two party system.
The election was decided on which candidate people considered to be the worst, not who they wanted as president.
Can't really second that. US people are generally woefully uninformed for a people with a free press and free access to information, but they're also generally nice. I only found them a bit patronizing, at least the ones that don't really know there is a world outside of their country.
In other words, there is no tactful way to inform your host that he needn't explain how a light switch works...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It amaz8ng how liberals think the right are all uneducated brainwashed morons. Guess what, the right thinks the exact same thing as the left. In this respect the left and right agree. Both agree that their side is great and the other side are a bunch of slanderous pigs. There is no debate, just name calling. Whether you are a commie or a Nazi in the end it works out the same. I propose a third side in the debate. Let's get the Nazi right, the commie left, the BLM crowd, the racist, the faggots, and the homophobes to form one gigantic party called the United States to crush the foreign interests using the media to divide the country and worry bullshit while the country and media is sold to China.
You may think the USA is a evil imperialistic empire, but when it falls the liberators will consider you to be the enemy, so might as well defend the place you live. We need to hand together or we shall all hang separately as they say. The enemy is not the right or left. It is the people using the media to divide up the country.