Twittering The Tyrants »
Posted By SophiaClarke 1 month, 3 weeks ago in NewsNew media websites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have opened a window of freedom for people living in closed societies around the world
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calitennflo1 month, 3 weeks ago
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EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.
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Progress has been made concerning our freedoms due to their constant pressure on Washington.(uS government)
The FCC; even though they have posted the Freedom of information act on their website, has fallen short.
http://www.fcc.gov/foia/
It is my belief that the availability of opensource technology will have a greater effect, granting world wide freedoms than any uS technology.
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calitennflo1 month, 3 weeks ago
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EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.
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Progress has been made concerning our freedoms due to their constant pressure on Washington.(uS government)
The FCC; even though they have posted the Freedom of information act on their website, has fallen short.
http://www.fcc.gov/foia/
It is my belief that the availability of opensource technology will have a greater effect, granting world wide freedoms than any uS technology.
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vader821 month, 3 weeks ago
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Interesting article, I do feel that it is note worthy that they mentioned the danger of being identified by authorities through mobile phones or computer. If an authoritarian government was smart, they could use the internet just as effectively as the activists.
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Natureboy1 month, 3 weeks ago
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OK, Radio Free Europe, the pre-eminent US propaganda organ, has done it again.
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Read about THIS American, IN the USA, who got the book thrown at him by the FBI for using such tactics against global capitalists on US soil -
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/g20-protester-arrested... -
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