America's Top Next Law: Go To Prison... For Reading... WTF?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/12/16/130218/go-to-jail-for-visiting-a-web... Eric Posner, the fourth most-cited law professor in the U.S., says the government may need to jail you if you even visit an ISIS site after enough warnings. He says, "Never before in our history have enemies outside the United States been able to propagate genuinely dangerous ideas on American territory in such an effective way—and by this I mean ideas that lead directly to terrorist attacks that kill people. The novelty of this threat calls for new thinking about limits on freedom of speech. The law would provide graduated penalties. After the first violation, a person would receive a warning letter from the government; subsequent violations would result in fines or prison sentences. The idea would be to get out the word that looking at ISIS-related websites, like looking at websites that display child pornography, is strictly forbidden" There would be exemptions for Washington-blessed journalists and others. Whew! Alas, this man isn't Donald Trump — he is a widely respected University of Chicago faculty member writing in Slate. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/12/is... http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/go-to-jail-for-visiting-a-web-site-or-maybe-r... Of course crypto will be labeled a dangerous idea... Can't publish it, can't have it, can't use it, can't read it, can't think it.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:39:13AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/12/16/130218/go-to-jail-for-visiting-a-web...
Eric Posner, the fourth most-cited law professor in the U.S., says the government may need to jail you if you even visit an ISIS site after enough warnings. He says, "Never before in our history have enemies
So the "freedom of speech" is practically dead since long time in the u$a. Now the right to read is going the same way. If I were ISIS, I would spam all of the u$a with copies of their sites. Having in mind their trade with oil, they can afford it. Or maybe some hidden <IFRAME>s on popular u$a sites. Especially for @juan _GNU_ reading: The Right to Read by Richard Stallman http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:52:54 +0200 Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:39:13AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/12/16/130218/go-to-jail-for-visiting-a-web...
Eric Posner, the fourth most-cited law professor in the U.S., says the government may need to jail you if you even visit an ISIS site after enough warnings. He says, "Never before in our history have enemies
So the "freedom of speech" is practically dead since long time in the u$a.
Not at all!! They have full 'freedom of speech'. That doesn't mean they have any freedom of hearing. See, that's the logic of western 'liberals'. Think about people in 'solitary confinement'. Are they free to say whatever they want? Of course! (as long they are not literally gagged). Whether other people can listen to them is a different story. But anyway, that's the beauty of liberal anglo-american freedom!
Now the right to read is going the same way.
If I were ISIS, I would spam all of the u$a with copies of their sites. Having in mind their trade with oil, they can afford it.
Or maybe some hidden <IFRAME>s on popular u$a sites.
Especially for @juan _GNU_ reading:
The Right to Read
by Richard Stallman
Yes. Well. You know the saying "a broken clock is right twice a day" thing is, stallman remains his own sorry parody https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html the guy is a good programmer and a fucking totalitarian asshole who laughably fancies himself a 'master' of 'ethics' Let me connect a couple of dots : "We need a state for...defending the nation;" <--- war cry of american fascim. https://taler.net/ "Electronic payments for a liberal society!" <--- 'liberal' insert here web search for "liberal democrats obama"
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