Starrfall on 13/8/2011 at 15:46
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
That sounds like bs to me. Who has floated this idea? Where? And if it's some fringe nutjob republicans then who gives a crap?
I'm bored of hearing about "ideas" being "talked about" when in reality it's just the 12 members of some extreme tinfoil hat right ring inbred mentalists that no one cares about and who have no influence over anything meaningful.
Not quite the same as "barring troublemakers from social media," (and on the wrong side of the pond) but very recently BART cut cell phone service in four stations out of worries about protests/demonstrations (we just passed the year anniversary of the sentencing of a BART cop who killed someone in a pretty damn outrageous manner - more like de Menezes, less like Duggan). Seems like they just shut down the cell receptors in those stations though, I'm not entirely convinced that there's much sinister about not constantly providing cell reception where there wouldn't normally be any.
Sg3 on 13/8/2011 at 17:12
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
And if it's some fringe nutjob republicans then who gives a crap?
I'm bored of hearing about "ideas" being "talked about" when in reality it's just the 12 members of some extreme tinfoil hat right ring inbred mentalists that no one cares about and who have no influence over anything meaningful.
I dunno. I hear there's some pretty disturbing censorship in Australia (for one). You might be surprised at what measures the powers can get away with. (Not to mention that many politicians who claim to be liberal have as bad of a record as the conservative ones about cracking down on free speech; but that's really a different discussion altogether.)
Martin Karne on 13/8/2011 at 20:18
Quote Posted by demagogue
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/world/europe/12iht-social12.html) Cameron Exploring Crackdown on Social Media After Riots
"Suspected troublemakers" barred from digital communication tools? I understand them wanting to stay on top of online criminal organization. But a law that just lets them cut internet & phone access to people they don't like; I don't see any good coming of this.
But of course you won't see any of this at all, if you don't think like they want, you won't have the chance to read about it, no net for subversive people (oh the humanity! My waffles! You're not my real father! Joe.. find me, I'm in one of this boxes!)
Shug on 14/8/2011 at 11:34
Quote Posted by Sg3
I dunno. I hear there's some pretty disturbing censorship in Australia (for one). You might be surprised at what measures the powers can get away with.
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CCCToad on 15/8/2011 at 03:47
Poor Azaran, wallowing in your ignorant ways :cool:
Azaran on 15/8/2011 at 04:35
Quote Posted by CCCToad
Poor Azaran, wallowing in your ignorant ways :cool:
Ignorance is bliss
CCCToad on 15/8/2011 at 19:24
Sigh, stick to your silly populist ideas.
EVERYONE knows that the financial crisis was caused by risky investments, and not any fraud, regulatory capture or deliberate mismanagement designed to enrich the executives.
Why on earth would you believe the senate committee, the IMF, Elliot Spitzer's investigation team, and the FBI when the Bank's finest CEO's, lawyers, and PR officials have assured us that they just made an honest error in judgement?
Vivian on 15/8/2011 at 23:14
"Ye Olde Big Screen Telly"
SALT LAKE CITY is calling london a bunch of olde worlde rubes? FUCK OFF AMERICA. We've got simmering social tensions and a massive wealth, education and prospects gap that literally set fire to an entire street about a mile away from my house. The peacocks at the top of my road got ramraided! THE PEACOCKS. Do you have any idea of how fucking desperate that is? And now salt lake city feels the need to suggest we're some kind of pastoral bumpkin nest. Go fuck your step-daughters, mormons.
june gloom on 16/8/2011 at 01:17
Gotta love the little soccer ball on the TV too. And the vaguely racist depiction of the looter on the left.
