[governance] Re: The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists

[Eric Dierker]

Jeff,
 
Your subject line - headline is irresponsible, misleading and beneath your normal reliability.
 
Tyrants silence dissenters. That is a given. We would be better off trying to cut off the air they breathe than trying to prevent tools they can use to do so. But I really do like your notion that the Internet is a living breathing thing that can do something.  Yesterday my coaxial layed itself and my drill put a hole in the wall while my computer educated me. Today my car will drive me around to a house of worhsip that will give me faith. At least most americans will naturally die of their fat rather than their own lifestyles.

--- On Sun, 6/28/09, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:


From: Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com>
Subject: The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists
To: "Governance/IGC" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, "Eric Dierker" <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>, "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu>, "Peter Dambier" <peter at peter-dambier.de>, "Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista at publicroot.org>
Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 11:05 AM


All,

  Well here we have an example of how state sponsored and
controlled censorship can work for the bad guys such as tyrants
and suppress activists on a more grand scale, not that this is
really anything new of course.  But could this be previews of
coming attractions in the US, France, Sweden, Germany,
and the UK?   Looks like we are fast heading in this direction.

See: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/27/0344230

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