Most radicalism linked to Internet, say UK lawmakers

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Our overlords would like to shut down the Inter-tubes very very much.

LONDON — Internet service providers should do more to prevent the Web from playing a role in promoting violent extremism, British lawmakers said in a report published Monday.

The Internet has become an important factor in nurturing the extremist threat, surpassing universities and prisons as a place where dangerous ideas are developed and traded, the lawmakers said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46274740/ns/technology_and_science-security/

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1. 1763: Most Colonial Radicals linked to the Printing Press, U.K. lawmakers say

Some things never change.

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2. Most radicalism linked to conversation say

opponents of Socrates.

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3. Morons. The internet is a MEDIUM! Since the English invented English, you'd think they'd know that.

It's a MEANS of COMMUNICATION. Just like books or videos.

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4. This threat is serious and imminent.

They are chipping away at our internet freedom: SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and the plans for an internet ID are moving ahead swiftly.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002257531
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002257541

Add to this the fact that our government is now identifying both protesters and those who seek privacy on the internet with proxies as "potential terrorists," and we have a deadly serious problem here.

Call, write, oppose these measures, and Occupy Now, because they are putting structures into place to make it impossible to occupy later.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Yes, its a world wide attack on social networks

twitter is now censored by countries right after a Saudi Prince bought major shares in it.

Imagine if he had been an Iranian?

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6. Is this surprising?

Most of everything is linked to the internet.

Ideas have always spread, extremist and otherwise. Better communications just mean that ideas spread faster. Do we believe in the marketplace of ideas or not? If governments can censor dangerous ideas then they can censor any ideas.