A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison

Re:A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison by maze-le on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:59AM (#16274800)

Its not a strech. Not showing videos released from terrorist groups, might be a valid strategy. After all, terrorism is a means of political communication through violence. When you remove one of the most potent channels of communication, you could remove the ability of these groups to 'terrorize'. Albeit, in times of facebook youtube and twitter this is not possible anymore.

So theoretically, a valid idea. Practically not possible and maybe even counterproductive.

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Re:A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison by 0xcde4c3db on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:53AM (#16281811)

That's an entirely different and far more rational argument for the policy. It does nothing to validate (and in some sense is the opposite of) the "secret messages" argument.

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Re:A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison by acct1771 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:21AM (#16280155)

There are some people so desperately crying out for us to stop our government from killing innocent people overseas without our consent that they feel the situation is all but hopeless, so they start killing and causing destruction themselves to draw attention to the problem, and government simply doesn't want the voters to see that.

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Re:A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison by acct1771 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:23AM (#16280164)

In case this has to be said, no, I will never defend the killing of innocent people.

But the big question I ask myself, and ask of others: Are you innocent?

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Re:A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison by maze-le on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:16AM (#16280724)

What kind of nonsensical comment is that?

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Re:A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison by acct1771 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @12:35PM (#16283802)

My tax dollars pay for this: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

Do yours?

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Re:A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison by maze-le on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:18PM (#16286457)

My taxes support this at least. Ramstein Air Base is a relay station in the drone wars and is partly supported by the German government. And I don't like it either. The scale of it is disproportionate and counterproductive. With each drone bombing, they kill 2 terrorists and create 20 new ones.

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Re:A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison by acct1771 on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:54PM (#16296258)

Then I'm not sure why you're calling my comment nonsensical. You agree with it. Cheers, have a good one.

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