How Blockable Is the Internet?

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Amnesty International has launched a laudable new campaign (Irrepressible.info) to help people to get around restrictions placed by authoritarian or totalitarian states on the free flow of information through the internet. The BBC offers a peek at some of the strategies used by China, Cuba, and the United Arab Emirates.



9 Responses to “How Blockable Is the Internet?”

  1. Undermine censorship

    It gladdens me to see that Irrepressible.info, an Amnesty International campaign “to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress”, includes a supply-side anti-censorship component:
    If you have a we…

  2. sumerian100

    I think this is a focused campagain, on CHINA, Cuba, and UAE.
    I believe that this exmpets USA’s Bush admin, from their “FEAR OF PUBLIC” tactics, used to discourge Americans to know or share what is happening in the world.

    Bush Admin since 2000 slowed down by threatning people from internet usage by stating that they could be terrorists / investigated, based on the sites they visit and their shares.

    I am a user of Internet for 10 years. Americans are now afraid to write any poltical matter or even browse. They are also afraid to discuss anything about Islam unless they attack it.

    So if UAE wants to protect its people for ethical reasons, the USA is using other non visible tactics to plant fear in their Internet users.

    Hence the campaign should focuse on laws and poltician and governers and key personel statements regarding Internet usage if it wanted to be transparent campgain

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  3. Sandeep

    Setting the English aside (I assume the writer is not a native speaker of the language), the content of Sumerian100’s comment is utterly nonsensical. Amnesty International is hardly a “USA Bush admin” organization. Quite the contrary. Moreover, the website to which Palmer links is not even an American website, but was sponsored by the UK branch of Amnesty International and supported and hosted by one of the most anti-American newspapers in Britain, the Guardian!

    Sumerian100 must not read many American websites, which are full of spirited debate about American politics, as well as lots of pro-Islamist sites. It shows staggering and willful ignorance to write “Americans are now afraid to write any poltical matter or even browse. They are also afraid to discuss anything about Islam unless they attack it.”

    Sumerian100’s remarks about the UAE indicate active support for censorship and his other remarks are merely a smokescreen to indicate that he prefers to be subject to censorship, despite being “a user of Internet for 10 years.”

  4. sumerian100

    Sandeep made comments only on sumerian100 personalitya and not on what he said.

    Since those English settlers traveled and settled in East America in 1535, and the link on the Corporates level were never weakened between England -not Britian- and USA.

    Who controls USA and England? Offline

    You need to save this video in a safe place. This is how the Bankers
    took over.

    SEE THIS VIDEO:
    The beginning of the New World Order.

    Click here: Masters of the Universe – The Secret

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2641342891593561909&pl=true

    If the above link is broken, use cut and paste of the two portions similteniously.

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  5. Sandeep

    Actually, what I wrote above is that “the CONTENT of Sumerian100’s comment is utterly nonsensical”. I wrote nothing about his personality, but now that the conspiratorial anti-Semitism has been manifested, it would be tempting to do so.

  6. Tom G. Palmer

    Sumerian100 has been reading too much Justin Raimondo. The difference is that when discussing who “controls” the U.S., Raimondo doesn’t insist that the answer be given “offline.” (He refers to Washington, D.C. as “occupied” by the Israelis. And since the people he’s vilified are U.S. citizens who are Jews, that’s to say that American Jews are not Americans, but “Israelis,” i.e., foreigners. http://www.tomgpalmer.com/archives/023978.php )

    At least Sumerian100’s video was entertaining, if not quite convincing.

  7. sumerian100

    For Sandeep all that about Sumerian was not out-of-context:
    a))
    Setting the English aside (I assume the writer is not a native speaker of the language

    b))
    Sumerian100 must not read many American websites,

    c))
    Sumerian100’s remarks about the UAE indicate active support for censorship and his other remarks are merely a smokescreen to indicate that he prefers to be subject to censorship, despite being “a user of Internet for 10 years.”

    For Tom; I think it is a credit to Israel if it controls USA, it is hardly running itself. And Israel is not a Jewish country, but it claims to be so.

    The bankers control USA, and it all started by the Bank of England which seemingly is the institution that runs all.

    Protestanism is an enemy to humanity and christianity. It is a tool adopted by the bankers to silence the nations who follow it, that they get a dose of faith. This dose of faith is being manipulated contineously to satisfy money flow and controling people.

    The Catholics of Both Americas and Occupied Britian (by the English) should be united to liberate themselves from the big comfortable slavery prison!

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  8. Shantidas

    Catholics to unite to liberate themselves from occupied Britain (by the Englilsh)?

    Am I reading posts from a psychiatric institution?
    Otherwise some people are living in a parallel universe.