Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi...
by hangonhn on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:24PM
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Terrorism is the use of mass terror against a civilian population you don't control to reach a political goal. Terrorizing a population is simply oppression and governments have been doing this for as long as there has been governments (Nazis, Soviets, Chinese Communists, etc. are all modern examples of this.)
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Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi...
by jaekwon on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:35PM
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Like the threat of a nuclear bomb? Not just NK but Fat Man too.
Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi...
by adventured on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @03:14PM
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By that definition Russia is a giant terrorist organization, seeing as they're pointing nuclear missiles at a lot of cities in North America and Europe.
Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi...
by hangonhn on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @04:48PM
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Well I won't rule on the general statement about Russia but their nuclear arsenal isn't being used to change any of our stated policies. They're not saying "stop doing X or we will use nuclear weapons". What most or all current nuclear armed nations have done is basically used their nukes to maintain the status quo -- a Nash equilibrium of non-usage.
Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi...
by amadvance on Thursday January 01, 2015 @03:58AM
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Russia invaded Crimea some months ago. Only a nuclear power could have done that without retaliation.
Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi...
by jaekwon on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @06:33PM
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Yes. That's my point. Most of us live under terrorist regimes. Black people are terrorized by the police. The middle east is terrorized by the US. We're terrorized by Russia.
To isolate a few and to give them the label of "terrorist" for being a bit more terrifying is a form of brainwashing.