[LINK] OT: Re: China Gleefully Uses UK Desire For Censorship To Validate Its Own Censorship

[Kim Holburn]

I'm not sure a technical solution is really going to work.  

The British have already tried incarcerating poor people in massive numbers in another age, (the US is trying it in this present age).  Transportation is not an option these days either.

Here is a surprising article from a conservative British tabloid:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100100708/the-moral-decay-of-our-society-is-as-bad-at-the-top-as-the-bottom/

If we have another US/EU financial crisis we won't be able to bail out the financial sector.  What happens then?

I have heard it said that those toxic loans that triggered the first USFC are still there and still toxic and until they fix that this crisis won't go away but IANAE (I am not an Economist).


On 2011/Aug/13, at 4:14 PM, Phillip Musumeci wrote:

>> 
>> From: Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net>
>> Subject: [LINK] China Gleefully Uses UK Desire For Censorship To Validate
>> Its Own Censorship
>> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110812/10553415491/china-gleefully-uses-uk-desire-censorship-to-validate-its-own-censorship.shtml
>> 
>>> China Gleefully Uses UK Desire For Censorship To Validate Its Own
>> Censorship
>>> 
>>> from the who-didn't-see-that-coming? dept
> 
> 
> The ease of organising crowds for looting might be reduced without content
> filtering of messages (which gives support to Chinese censorship).
> Supposing that group organising needs instant or almost instant messaging
> from one-to-many, then it might be possible to disrupt these groups by
> introducing *temporary* time delays into one-to-many messaging that enter or
> leave boundaries around selected areas.
> 
> The necessary delay to disrupt two-communications might be smaller than
> expected as the way people communicate in "conversations" is timing
> dependent (5 minutes, 15 minutes, an hour, the time police need to get
> somewhere ... who knows, but testing would help).
> 
> Mobile phone locations can be localised to cell boundaries which is enough
> to delay flow of SMS (subject to buffer requirements), but localising mobile
> IP nodes in order to delay chat type comms might require some extra
> cooperation between ISPs and mobile carriers as some ISPs have virtual
> networks inside 3G data networks.
> 
> This of course doesn't stop people accessing other web sites for directions
> but people have been able to do that for quite some time.  It might possibly
> affect arguments about freedom of speech in places like Syria but the way
> the government operates there probably means any dissident can't operate
> without at least tor-like anonymity (meaning IP dependency and no SMS, when
> SMS is still turned on...).  Oh, and even Australian shock jocks might
> understand how temporary time delays in specific regions does not equal
> content filtering.
> 
> Phillip
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