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Egypt Fights Terrorism By Censoring Web Sites, Threatening Jail Time For Accessing Them (apnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has ratified an anti-cybercrime law that rights groups say paves the way for censoring online media. The law, published Saturday in the country's official gazette, empowers authorities to order the blocking of websites that publish content considered a threat to national security. Viewers attempting to access blocked sites can also be sentenced to one year in prison or fined up to EGP100,000 ($5,593) under the law. Last month, Egypt's parliament approved a bill placing personal social media accounts and websites with over 5,000 followers under the supervision of the top media authority, which can block them if they're found to be disseminating false news.
"Authorities say the new measures are needed to tackle instability and terrorism," reports the BBC.
"But human rights groups accuse the government of trying to crush all political dissent in the country."
"Authorities say the new measures are needed to tackle instability and terrorism," reports the BBC.
"But human rights groups accuse the government of trying to crush all political dissent in the country."
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So, if you're caught running Freenet, or accessing a tor gateway, can you be put in prison now in Egypt?
If we could only do the same for Fox News, the world would be a better place. Just look at this exchange that took place recently between a host and a representative of the New York Times:
Host: "[Trump] is not rounding people up and murdering them without any due process."
Goldberg: "He would certainly like to."
Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How are you going to fight a network that supports a President that wants to round people up and murder them?
So advertise sites, to attract people to them and fine them for going there, pretty cunning, the tah dah, internet equivalent of a speed trap ;D.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Egypt: Come for the antiquities, stay because you got black bagged at the airport for insulting Egypt.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Egypt Fights Terrorism By Censoring Web Sites, Threatening Jail Time For Accessing Them
INFORMATION wants to be free!
Apparently you do not wish the same.
So you have:
I'm sure there are other lists out there (Holy Bible, Mein Kampf, others.) My, there's a lot of naughty ideas out there. OTOH if you're actively promoting violence ("let's kill all of the bastards at noon tomorrow in the city") that's a little different.
The bazaar of ideas shouldn't exchange books and paper for bullets and knives. And it doesn't, only marginalized PEOPLE do. Maybe there's a reason you're marginalized. Maybe there's not. But I suspect it's much easier to become that way if you've got "nothing else to lose" and "the bastards are going to hear me now!"
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
I want to point out that many times in history non-marginalized people are the ones doing the most killing. Helots vs Spartans, Americans vs native Americans, etc.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
This shit is coming to America soon, but it's not going to be against Islamic pro-Jihadists, it's going to be against the right wing. And once the right is taken care if they'll start going after the left too. You can see the sprouts of it with the neoliberals starting to connect Russia influence to the Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein campaigns.
The left truly fucking thinks that the new wave of political silencing of the right online will NEVER be used against them.
Part of it is due to them being mentally ill Commie minded fags who think if they 100% deplatform the right, they will gain cultural hegomy and utopia. Simply by silencing and social shaming all critics, opposition, and anyone who disagrees with them in the slightest.
The other part is that you have people who truly do not see the long arc of censorship; the people who don't realize that the "They first came for X, then Y, then Z and I kept quiet because I wasn't X, Y, Z and as a result, I was fucked when they came for me and X, Y, Z wasn't there to help save me" meme is almost always true. Especially since the Democrats are openly hostile to ANYONE who calls out their bullshit and only side with the SJW death kult because they can be bribed easier and share the neoliberals lust for power and wealth.
Case in point, you honestly think the DNC will allow ANYONE on the left to publicly crusade for universal health care once they assume complete control over the government again? Especially in the wake of the fact that Obama pushing for it, over the objections of the neoliberal elite, ended up backfiring HUGE on the Democrats and cost them the House and revitalized the right by way of the Tea Party? The DNC will never let that happen again, so anyone pushing for universal healthcare will be deplatformed online.
Same with Black Lives Matter: you honestly think the Democrats will want them blowing the "everything is great" illusion once they get power again? Deplatformed and silenced.
The DNC won't stop once they silence the right; they will inevitably use it on their own once they take power to reaffirm the neoliberals control over the party and the left will have NO ONE to save them
They compete with it using monopolist tactics. Remember that "terrorism" originally means a form of government that controls the population by using fear.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
This is what all that stupid post-9/11 rhetoric gets you.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
You always find lots of true believers for the most demented ideologies. Add a few sadists (also readily available) and you can organize any type of slaughter desired.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Two Democrats went cycling in ISIS territory to prove terrorism doesn't exist. They got killed, lol!
You've got Banned Books [bannedbooksweek.org] apparently in the US which removes or restricts access to paper books.
I agree with your general sentiment, but you've got Banned Books Week very wrong. Take another look at your link :)
When a previous government of Egypt listened to the Obama[president]/Clinton[SecState] era nonsense about "Arab spring" and let the Muslim Brotherhood people out of jail, the nation was rapidly taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood and fell into the hands of these terror loving racist Islamofascist fanatics who made life there far worse. That MB government rapidly began oppressing people far worse than the previous government and they tried to kill-off the people of the previous government (making a point for anybody who might be stupid enough in the future to surrender peacefully to any Muslim Brotherhood aligned group). The government of Egypt today is the military government that the people begged to step-in and overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood - these guys are far from perfect but they're sitting atop a mountain of cultural, political, and extreme religious dynamite so it's rather amazing that things are as stable there as they are at the current point in history.
It's an unavoidable fact that the people of any land are ultimately responsible for the government under which they live. America's founders tried to teach that to the world, but most people like to ignore the lesson. We have idiots in the USA (like "neocons", Hillary Clinton, and John McCain) who think that America should be running around giving other people democracy (even if they do not want it) and ignoring the idea that people must WANT democracy and must win it for themselves or they will not value it. The people of any tyranny are free to live without that tyranny the moment they decide that throwing off that tyranny is more valuable to them than their personal safety and their stuff. The people of Egypt will get a better government when they improve themselves and their culture to make a better political system workable. Until that day comes, the population apparently must choose between a moderately-nasty military government and full-on evil fanatical extremist Muslim theocrats imposing sharia law on everybody.
Typical left wing reaction to people saying what they don't like, silence them. The right wing believes the best means to end bad ideas is with good ideas, or at least letting the idiots talk until their idiocy is revealed.
Censoring people in an attempt to fight terrorism will not work. We see this being tried with bans on Alex Jones. What were these idiots thinking? You have a conspiracy theorist talking about how the government is trying to hide the existence of aliens, or whatever it is he talks about on his show, and by banning him all that is done is prove him right. It's not a conspiracy theory if they are in fact out to get you.
These terrorists are the same thing, they claim they are oppressed by some Jewish conspiracy to silence them and kill them off, or whatever hate they spew out. Well, maybe they are right about this Jewish conspiracy if the government wants to silence them.
I learned something about the "religion of peace". One fundamental rule is that nonbelievers are to be converted, killed, or enslaved. Another fundamental rule is that if the person does not believe every single thing as you do then they are a nonbeliever. So we see Muslims killing Muslims in large numbers. Say what you like about past brutality of Jews and Christians, but Muslim on Muslim violence is happening right now all over the world. Egypt is having a terrorist problem? In a country that is 90% Muslim? Now they want to act by silencing the terrorists? I'm thinking that this will only make things worse as this only feeds the conspiracy that is being taught to them.
People do not realize this, but information forms a type of market. Whatever is rare will be more valuable, and whatever is easily accessed will be less so.
In the same way The Anarchist's Cookbook was much-sought during the 1980s, if you make terrorism documents illegal, they will become valuable and people will pass them along more.
The only real way to fight terrorism is to reveal the incompetence of terrorists at achieving anything but terror. Sort of like how the Soviets went out, and now no one but American college students likes Communism.
Alternative Right.
But with the Internet. Nothing new here really.
People get very interested in mathematics and physics when those can be used to justify belief in things they wish were true. If you can use physics to prove a crowd favorite like climate change, equality, transgenderism, consumerism, drinking being good for you, etc., there will be quite an audience.
Alternative Right.
They don’t tackle the real problem: that utterly retarded, stupid, idiotic, totalitarian, toxic and imperialistic religion that has rotten the brains of many people worldwide.
Donald approves of these measures. You have got to stop fake (real) news!
And on the causes of crime!
Only because they have the power to do the killing. If you went back in a time machine and gave the native Americans modern machine weapons and a stack of ammo, you can be sure they would show no more mercy towards the Europeans than the Europeans showed towards them. That is just human nature, and it is not easily changed.
Censor the world! Only approved cats videos from now on.
Slashdot ignored the Alex Jones deplatforming event. No article.
Totally inexcusable corruption.
I wonder how many users here even realize how sculpted the narrative is here.
Roughly 90% of the native americans died from first exposure to European people, due to epidemics. It makes complete sense that the Europeans then had a docile weakened population to deal with.
In the West, websites are blocked for "hate", "hate speech" or "racism".
Threats to national security is a higher hurdle.
Its inevitable. "forbidden knowledge ( in our, the government's, view ) is forbidden and you have broken the law by learning it."
( in some ways it already has, with blocking and such.. )
Hard to tell if this is part of real censorship happening around the world or "Wah! Egypt rejected the enlightened rule of the Muslim Brotherhood!"