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Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network (theverge.com)
An Access Now report finds that Venezuela has blocked all access to the Tor network. "The latest block includes both direct connections to the network and connections over bridge relays, which had escaped many previous Tor blocks," reports The Verge. From the report: According to network metrics, Tor access in Venezuela had recently spiked in response to recent web blocks placed on local news outlets. Unlike previous blocks, the latest restrictions could not be circumvented by using a censorship-resistant DNS server like those provided by Google and CloudFlare. For many Venezuelans, Tor seems to have been the only way left to access the restricted content. "This is the latest escalation in Venezuela's internet censorship efforts, as it blocks higher-profile sites with more sophisticated methods," said Andres Azpurua of Venezuela Inteligente, in a statement provided through Access. "This is one of their boldest internet censorship actions yet."
Another moron. Please stay off the interstate highways, moron, because that is socialism. And don't be drinking any clean water either. Yep, socialism. I guess you weren't educated, so we can't ask for that investment in you back. Pity.
Venezuela's problem isn't socialism, it's government implementing things in the dumbest way possible.
It's funny how some policies are evil socialism when discussing implementing them int the U.S. but "aren't really socialism" when someone points to a successful country that implements them.
Which country ?
Not sure we have "more" services, maybe better or more efficient ones is more accurate.
Really can't formulate a specific response without knowing what you mean by "WE"
Freedoms are easy. All the named nations have certain shortfalls there. Freedom of speech is a nearly non existent right in all the named countries, freedom of association as bad as it has gotten here is still better, the right to defend yourself ? You have judges in Europe trying to force kitchen knives to be duller. Freedom to advance yourself economically ? well the U.S. is number one for economic freedom once again having just beaten Hong Kong.
We are kind of low on the freedom to leach off your fellow citizens though. It's not that we haven't tried it, the Jamestown colony did nearly starved to death, the shakers tried it, theyre gone, the Amana commune tried it, they are an appliance corporation these days. Just never seems to work at best people abandon it as a bad idea, at worst they won't admit the idea is wrong and you get tragedy.
Communism and socialism fail with humans just the same as capitalism and pretty much any pure 'ism'.
Power accumulates. Checks and balances can slow this, but if there isn't an active effort to deconstruct the accumulation, then all you are doing is slowing the process and the process tends to result in rapid deconstruction of the accumulated power via revolution (whether bloody or not) and the replacement of the old with something that differs only in detail. A kind of boom and bust cycle that only looks like progress.
In the 'real world' people and societies are motivated by a mix of selfishness and altruism; co-operation and competition. Some lean hard one way, some the other. A mix of both, with a dynamic equilibrium seems to produce the most stable forms of government/organisation that results in the best outcomes for the most people.
Socialism and communism can and do work with humans - when it's limited to areas where this is suitable and useful (like infrastructure and utilities or services) and where it's kept in check with regulation or even limited competition. Capitalism works with humans in much the same way - with regulation and oversight, limitations to protect society and by not allowing it in areas where monopolies are harmful or extracting a profit reduces the overall benefit to society. Some communism doesn't scale past the family/neighbourhood. Same with capitalism. Some is only useful at larger scales, but again, needs to be regulated, monitored and kept in check.
Observing that communism/socialism fails is trivial. _Everything_ fails.
In Canada I think a lot more people have more freedom to choose better educational opportunities and better medical services
Is that why Florida is a medical tourism destination for Canadians ? Well I guess you have the freedom to leave the country to get yourself healed.
Education ? Hmmm are you saying you have better universities than the U.S. ? because the logical implication if not, is that you have a better chance of picking from worse opportunities.
t depends on perspective, look at disparity levels, the US is way ahead when it comes to higher economic classes leaching on poorer economic classes.
Oh you mean the way your privileged class wrecked Ontario ?
http://business.financialpost....
Is that why Florida is a medical tourism destination for Canadians ? Well I guess you have the freedom to leave the country to get yourself healed.
The US has countless people whose only medical treatment is the emergency room. Countless more with insurance programs that won't let them touch the kind of care medical tourists come for. Most the rest our burdened by substantially by our care costing so much compared to the rest of the world. I guess your income is high enough to take advantage of that great care tourists want, congrats. Not being so well off myself, I'd rather have Canada's system.
Oh you mean the way your privileged class wrecked Ontario ?
If you think that's even in the same universe as how the rich exploit people in the US, you really need to move out of that cave.
And universities... sounds like you want to compare top to top, where the picture outside of that is once again very different.
The US is only the best for the most privileged.
Thank you for your reasoned reply. I particularly like the use of 'moron'. Very classy.
My first sentence makes it clear that I'm generalising about all systems. Making a distinction between communism and socialism may be useful in a different context, but here it's pure pedantry.
That 'socialism has never been implemented' is a form of the 'no true scotsman' fallacy. Meaningful observations can be made from attempts to implement socialism, from elements of other forms of government that have had strong socialist elements and from limited implementations of socialism either in terms of scale or scope.
Your 'argument' uses the 'true socialism has never been implemented' phrase which is usually used to dismiss a criticism of socialism. You apparently lack the ability to do more than ape the form and deliver an ad-hominem in passing. You've managed to pack name calling, an ad-hominem and a criticism of tone into one sentence. That's the bottom three in terms of Paul Grahams hierarchy of disagreement. An impressive performance.
How about you make a contribution to the discussion and criticise the idea I expressed, or offer one of your own?