USA Not Backing Down from Internet Freedom

[Mottamort]

Isn't this the same country that has a stupid amount of court cases, involving (among others) a girl badmouthing some lame actress on the internet (read here on tom's)? What kind of country "promotes" the free use of internet while at the same time cranking down on free speech within it... USA needs to sort their own shit out before looking at other countries, and that could have been said BEFORE Iraq as well...what were you DOING there in the first place?

 

[Hilarion]

[citation][nom]khimera2000[/nom]Hilarion i believe you just placed your foot firmly in your mouth also information is power in this day and age, but it can be used to hurt alot of people, to say that one country censoring for the sake of looking good and to spread propaganda, and that another country taking a cautionary measure against a cyber attack are the same thing does not look the same to you... have you actually looked whats on sorceforge??? they might not have the most state of the art, but they do have effective tools none the less that can be used as a bases for something far more dangerous, and if you disagree then just yank out the network cable and/or wifi card from your computer and see how long you function with a severed flow... which a full on cyber attack can do in the hands of the right people.[/citation]
I don't disagree. But "censoring" the internet like that just plays into the hands of the Chinese who use that same excuse to "censor" the internet and yet the US is jabbering at them about "opening up" the internet for the "free flow of information" which we are not doing ourselves.

It's the old story of the Politician who accuses another Politician of "Playing Politics." Like there's a real difference.

 

[scryer_360]

I'd just wish that the US government would take the same line against private-companies attempts to restrict the same.