Which demonstrates the importance of online activism. While spending Sunday afternoon in my armchair commenting on a Slashdot thread is not going win a lot of admiration (why did you do during the war? why son, I worked my keyboard, that is how I got blogger butt), it does make a difference. Everyone who throws their support for Snowden on these threads, everyone who signed the petition to pardon Snowden, everyone whoever linked to Restore the Fourth is making a difference. It is easy to make fun of online activism, but clearly we are making a difference or our opposition would not spend so much money trying to manipulate us.
Just so. Given the parade of elected officials calling Snowden a traitor, and given the overtly hostile press that Snowden has received from broadcast and cable, I would say that his numbers are holding up remarkably well.
the more companies who have a vested interested in surveillance and data mining, the greater the economic and political power of those with a vested interest in continuing and expanding these sorts of practices. It is not a good situation.
Just as you say. London is has one of the most pervasive surveillance systems in the world, and during the riot it protected life and property not at all. It was completely useless.
there is always money for surveillance and swat teams, but never money for education, health care, jobs programs, or anything that people would actually want.
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could save us a lot of money, in addition to saving our constitution.
to pay attention to school board and municipal elections.
We are conditioning them to live in a police state.
How activists are watched online.
Which demonstrates the importance of online activism. While spending Sunday afternoon in my armchair commenting on a Slashdot thread is not going win a lot of admiration (why did you do during the war? why son, I worked my keyboard, that is how I got blogger butt), it does make a difference. Everyone who throws their support for Snowden on these threads, everyone who signed the petition to pardon Snowden, everyone whoever linked to Restore the Fourth is making a difference. It is easy to make fun of online activism, but clearly we are making a difference or our opposition would not spend so much money trying to manipulate us.
Just so. Given the parade of elected officials calling Snowden a traitor, and given the overtly hostile press that Snowden has received from broadcast and cable, I would say that his numbers are holding up remarkably well.
Private companies have set up their own spying operations. Bloomberg Financial is spying on Goldman Sachs. and Murdoch is running saboteur operations against his competitors. And these same people keep calling to tougher measures against hackers.It is as if the entire international power structure walked out of a Vladimir Voinovich novel. Sigh.
Why would you imagine that infiltrators are limited to the US security apparatus?
who did not see this coming?
openly rather than using ghosts? I suggest that your ban on PR people is counter-productive and works against transparency.
the more companies who have a vested interested in surveillance and data mining, the greater the economic and political power of those with a vested interest in continuing and expanding these sorts of practices. It is not a good situation.
mods, please uprate!
Murdoch's Pirates: Before the phone hacking, there was Rupert's pay-TV skullduggery
but that does not stop corporation from trying to be the first.
so I was late to the party, so sue me.
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is very knowledgeable about hacking. they should fly the Jolly Roger over their HQ
this cannot end well.
Just as you say. London is has one of the most pervasive surveillance systems in the world, and during the riot it protected life and property not at all. It was completely useless.
there is always money for surveillance and swat teams, but never money for education, health care, jobs programs, or anything that people would actually want.
the local police chief explicitly said it was OK to record officers acting on official business.
Although the fact that this is obviously a flawed system may not prevent police agencies from using it.
FOSS is easier to deal with than GPL. I would have thought that it was the opposite.
Compare this aggressive surveillance with the slap on the wrist of HSBC, and it is hard to believe that this is really about national security.
But the US is the only industrial country with so high a level of gun violence. Maybe it has to do with gun culture. http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/crime/larsgun.htm