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Comment Re:US competing with China is censorship, lol (Score 0) 145

by ltorvalds11 (#48375009) Attached to: Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On US Spying

Ah, but people will make the counter-claim that a) this isn't the government, it's private industry on private property (sorta), so it's OK, and b) nobody will drag you off in the night(*) so it isn't really censorship.

See what they did there, comrade?

Now get back to work, or you'll be reported to the central authority.

(*) But we may have to do some parallel construction on your ass for having done so. We can't have the citizens getting uppity and thinking they still have a right to exercise free speech and independent thinking.

you are funny :)

Submission + - Web Magna Carta: WWW inventor calls for 'online bill of rights'

Submitted by ltorvalds11
ltorvalds11 writes: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web has spoken out against world governments and corporations, which he says are seeking to control the web for their own gain. He called for a revolutionary bill of rights to guaranty the web’s independence.

"If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life," Berners-Lee spoke at London’s ‘Web We Want’ festival, which discussed the future of the internet and its guidelines.
"If a government can block you going to, for example, the opposition's political pages, then they can give you a blinkered view of reality to keep themselves in power."
"There have been lots of times that it has been abused, so now the Magna Carta is about saying...I want a web where I'm not spied on, where there's no censorship," Berners-Lee said at the Web We Want Festival According to his comment, the only information that should be kept off the web relates to things that were illegal before the web, and remain illegal now – such as “child pornography, fraud, telling someone how to rob a bank,” and the like.

Comment Usually (Score 0) 2

by ltorvalds11 (#47989453) Attached to: Nobel Peace laureate Obama spending billions on US nuclear arsenal

President Obama does things his own way.

Usually, a President gets the authorization of Congress before starting a war; but President Obama has ordered attacks in two countries without bothering Congress. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2014/09/war_against_isis_in_syria_obama_s_legal_and_political_justifications.html [slate.com]

Usually, when a country attacks another country, we call that a "war", but President Obama instead calls it something else like an "effort". http://www.salon.com/2014/09/23/obamas_top_5_war_euphemisms_words_hes_used_to_avoid_calling_latest_war_a_%E2%80%9Cwar%E2%80%9D/ [salon.com]

And I'm pretty sure that President Obama is the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to publicly brag that he's pretty good at killing people. http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-said-hes-really-good-at-killing-people-2013-11 [businessinsider.com]

So why should President Obama worry about what Nobel Peace Prize winners usually do?

yeah you are right ! and these things are never discussed in public by media. :(

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