again about 'global agenda', French government can now filter/censor the Internet, simply adding a website to a black list: http://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/parlement-le-gouvernement-autorise-a-filtrer-internet-16-12-2010-1275995_47.php
V. Keith Sanborn wrote: > There is great irony in all this since the Internet is the principle medium > of surveillance. I think the Chinese response to Internet "freedom" is an > atavistic response based on old totalitarian roots--what Debord used to call > the concentrated spectacle. The parallel is found in PRC styles of spying: > instead of institutionalizing carnivore style surveillance, the Chinese > government uses old school hacking of privileged channels of communication. > The Chinese behavior towards the Nobel shows a parallel belief in the > importance of controlling access to "the real." The value of the Wikileaks > material is in confirming what you already suspect about US diplomacy which > is why it's so easy to suspect it of being spun by spooks. I personally don't > think it is, but it IS being released by the NT Times which has a long > history of cooperation with the CIA, as Chomsky and Herman exposed long ago. > Curiousier and curiousier. The word "redact" in American English is a bizarre > Latinism betr aying extreme behavior hiding behind a preposterously neutral self-descryption. Spelling intentional. > > > > On Dec 16, 2010, at 4:48 AM, Vito Campanelli <[email protected]> wrote: > <....> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
