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    Reading my atheist magazine-(Discover)-about the 100 top stories and discoveries of 2011, this suprised me...

    "Faced with blazing streets and rioting youth, the representatives of a struggling government convened an emergency meeting one day last summer to figure out how to quash the unrest and reassert authority. In his opening remarks to the assembled lawmakers, a powerful political leader suggested the suppression of popular communication, not by arresting publishers or shuttering radio stations but by blocking online social networks."

    "The politician was Prime Minister David Cameron: the government, Britain's"

    "Even in the United States, a bill to curtail Internet access surfaced for the second time in two years."

    IMO they don't worry about media like TV or radio anymore, they all have each other bought and paid for, it's uncontrolled individuals with access to each other that scare the shit out of them.

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    I'm pretty certain China for one already used the tactic of blocking access.

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    Quote Originally Posted by billynomates View Post
    I'm pretty certain China for one already used the tactic of blocking access.
    Yes they have, along with many middle east countries mentioned in the article. The citizens in those countries are using a software program called Tor, it lets users disguise their activities on line by using encrypted pathways between servers, bouncing communications around a distributed network 500,000 time daily. Iran shut down their system on 9-14 of this year, within hours Tor had everyone back up and running.

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    IMO they don't worry about media like TV or radio anymore, they all have each other bought and paid for, it's uncontrolled individuals with access to each other that scare the shit out of them.
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