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post #1 of 15
5/22/09 at 9:14am
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A set of ads by ISHR on world leaders afraid of the internet.

While I like the Chavez one, I don't think he really belongs in the same category as Raul Castro and Amademajad, whose governments have been trying to figure out how to block or harass dissident bloggers. He is currently trying to eliminate media criticism (ex: Globovision) but to be fair I don't think internet criticism is even in their radar right now.





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post #2 of 15
5/22/09 at 12:04pm
How about China?

They have something like 30,000 people manually monitoring the Internet, and squashing anything that looks like political dissent.
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post #3 of 15
5/22/09 at 12:07pm
Thanks a lot Cylon Baby, you just got CHUD banned in China!
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post #4 of 15
5/23/09 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by Cylon Baby View Post
How about China?

They have something like 30,000 people manually monitoring the Internet, and squashing anything that looks like political dissent.
What about the US and the EU? The NSA ad other Spy agencies around the would monitor the Internet 24/7. Every government on earth is afraid of the Internet. Just that some right now can do more then other to restrict it legally.
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post #5 of 15
5/23/09 at 8:21pm
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In this context, it means governments that restrict internet when it relates to dissent.

China is a good example, although this organization (if you go to their site) has a lot of human rights complaints against China ... maybe they just wanted to vary their protest with other countries.

Cuba is really weird, you can sort of write things against the government but the government tries to do their best to restrict internet access. So again, it varies from country to country.
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post #6 of 15
5/24/09 at 10:12am
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Iran is afraid of ... facebook!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8065578.stm
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Tehran blocks access to Facebook

Iran has briefly blocked access to social networking site Facebook ahead of June's presidential elections.

The move was aimed at stopping supporters of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi from using the site for his campaign.

Facebook, which says it has 175m users worldwide, expressed its disappointment over the reported ban.

Tehran reinstated access to the website after a few hours, but made no official comment about the censoring.

'Access not possible'

"Access to the Facebook site was prohibited several days ahead of the presidential elections," Iranian news agency Ilna reported.
Mousavi registers at the interior ministry in Tehran
Mr Mousavi was Iran's prime minister when the post was abolished in 1989

It said that "according to certain Internet surfers, the site was banned because supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi were using Facebook to better disseminate the candidate's positions".

CNN staff in Tehran reported that people attempting to visit the site received a message in Farsi that said: "Access to this site is not possible."

Facebook expressed disappointment that its site was apparently blocked in Iran "at a time when voters are turning to the Internet as a source of information about election candidates and their positions".

Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister, is seen as one of the leading challengers to incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 12 June elections.

His page on Facebook has more than 5,000 supporters.
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post #7 of 15
5/24/09 at 11:26am
The Internet, GPS and RFID tags....thanks for the monitoring, America!
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post #8 of 15
5/24/09 at 4:27pm
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???

Did somebody embed a GPS+RFID tag under your skin while you were sleeping?
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post #9 of 15
5/24/09 at 5:07pm
Pete is the resident crazy drunk.
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post #10 of 15
5/25/09 at 1:36am
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How about China?

They have something like 30,000 people manually monitoring the Internet, and squashing anything that looks like political dissent.
Come on Cylon, Western Governments all make too much money off - and these days owe too much money too - our powerful red friends to ever criticise them over anything, let alone their massive censoring of the worlds most open democratic form of information sharing.
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post #11 of 15
5/25/09 at 10:54am
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Once again, a quick glance of the ishr.org website shows that they have no problem at all criticizing China. Let's not confuse things.

The first two reports are about torture methods applied in China, and even come with their own cartoons.

http://ishr.org/
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post #12 of 15
5/25/09 at 11:09am
They don't have to embed them under the skin, mon capitaine: they already put GPS in your cellphone, in some laptops, cars, etc. As for RFID tags, they're in your passport, credit and debit card, most merchandise in stores, and soon, they'll be painting them on cars, such as the engine block.

See, people always thought that a dystopian government would eventually tattoo bar codes on your body somewhere. The population would have never let them do that without rioting, so instead they came up with a better solution: put tracking devices in gizmos that we'd buy and give them a beneficial quality (your in an accident, your GPS phone gives EMT your location) and we'd accept them.
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post #13 of 15
5/25/09 at 11:20am
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You know most phones don't really have GPS and the triangulation they do (used for emergencies) can be turned off right?

Most cards in the US don't have RFID either, however, what are you afraid of. You do know when you swipe that card the use of it has been identified right?
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post #14 of 15
5/25/09 at 11:35am
http://www.themobiletracker.com/english/index.html

I do use credit cards, the internet, a cell phone, etc... I just like the idea of Dick Cheney being able to follow me around, you know?
I've got nothing to hide, just the principle of the thing.
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post #15 of 15
5/25/09 at 11:39am
Most cards have RFID by now. You have to contact your company and make a request to NOT have a chip in there.
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