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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."
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.
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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 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.
"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."
If you had any valid point to make that one line completely invalidates it.
Donald Trump, on a crusade to make Nixon look respectable
Sounds as if you would enjoy Egypt. Have a nice vacation.
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 :)
Right, because the best way to keep people quiet about government conspiracies is to shut down news networks.
By the way, how is Alex Jones doing now? Seems like the attempts to "de-platform" him is only making him more popular. He was a nobody until these new media platforms tried to shut him down, and now everyone knows his name.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
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.
The Right doesn't need any "bans" to "prove" there is a conspiracy. Just listen to them, they will generate any sort of "conspiracy" from nothing regardless of what is happening. They exist by mutually recursive backscratching. Some idiot gins up a plot by connecting some random dots, another cites the first as proof and adds a few more dots, a few more cite the first ones as incontrovertible evidence of the plot. Then Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Fox, etc. take over and trumpet the plot citing the first idiots.
The Left could curl up and die and they'd still be ginning up ridiculous "plots", they have no other recourse for existence and a paycheck. Tyrants everywhere use this script.
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.
By the way, how is Alex Jones doing now? Seems like the attempts to "de-platform" him is only making him more popular.
It's only making him more infamous. That's not the same as popular.
He was a nobody until these new media platforms tried to shut him down, and now everyone knows his name.
He's still a nobody.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If the aim is to attract views, and thus advertising money, all that matters is being well-known enough to draw the attention. It does not matter if your viewers love you, or just love to scream in anger about you. So long as they watch you.
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.
It does not matter if your viewers love you, or just love to scream in anger about you. So long as they watch you.
The people angry about Alex Jones aren't watching him on his channel. They're watching clips of him on other people's shows. That doesn't produce revenue for him. And the more infamous he is, the more motivated people are to hassle him, which ultimately costs him money as he has to scramble for new platforms.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Censor the world! Only approved cats videos from now on.
And people showing clips of him on their shows isn't advertising for him which lead people to his platform (more like plank)?
You really didn't think that simple one through did you little buddy?
Motivated perception, the fruit of a lifetime of motivated reasoning.
Also you're implying his deplatforming was somehow motivated by popular sentiment.
If that was the case he would have been deplatformed long ago.
This was a top-down political move.
You really have no accurate perception of what's going on in this situation. And yet you speak.
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.
With the degree of philandering and womanizing that MLK engaged in, it's a marvel that his streetsigns and statues haven't been pulled down by #MEETOO
Not quite. It requires fear to be the primary mechanism. Most modern western governments are "idiotism", because they primarily use the stupidity of their citizens. Far easier to just mislead them than to terrorize them.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
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!"