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Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi... by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:41PM (#8820770)
> Drone strikes explicitly try not to hit non-combatants.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/

"Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."

ISIS seems to have a similarly broad definition. No, they're not morally equivalent, but we have serious issues with how we prosecute the War on Terror.

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Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi... by zachrose on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @05:03PM (#8821318)
Wow, that's exactly what Judith Butler is talking about when she talks about which lives are grievable and which are not[1].

[1] https://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Issue_16/review...

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