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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by heavyset_go on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @05:48PM (#21141118)
You'd think a headline like the one we're posting under would stop techno-optimism dead in its tracks.
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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by journalctl on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @06:18PM (#21141371)
When all you have is a startup, everything begins to look like a nail.
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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by seph-reed on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @06:25PM (#21141430)
We got the news within 12 hours. Right now massive amounts of data is being collected, and eventually it will get out.

This seems like it'd all be a lot easier to control without technology.

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