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Facebook admitted Sunday that it had blocked links to the Wikileaks trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee.
In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of "censorship" and gave its followers an online workaround, saying "try using https://archive.is."
The WikiLeaks allegation followed a firestorm of controversy that erupted earlier this year when former Facebook workers admitted routinely suppressing conservative news.
Source: https://nypost.com/2016/07/24/facebook-admits-to-blocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack/
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 2) by TheLink on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:15AM
What you should realize is it's quality not quantity that matters more. A corrupt small government could screw you even worse than a big one. Outsource the evil stuff to friends and allies.
Facebook, Apple, Disney, Monsanto etc don't even have to _pretend_ to follow those amendments many of you consider sacred, nor a lot of the nice stuff you've got over the years.
Much of it won't apply in Corporate Land. FOIA does not apply to Apple. Freedom of speech does not apply to Facebook. Good luck with bringing in your guns to Disneyland.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday July 27 2016, @02:34PM
Indeed, all empirical evidence suggests erring on the side of a really large government is less bad than erring on the side of a really small government. On the one extreme, you have the secret police watching your every move and sending suspect people to the gulag. On the other extreme, you have random warlords simply killing anyone suspected of being either criminals or opposed to the random warlord, or suspected of being a friend or family member of the guy they just killed, because they don't have the infrastructure to determine if somebody is actually guilty of anything nor to imprison them if they are guilty of something.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:28PM
Your odds are better when there's only one top guy and his family and friends than when there are dozens and you're not sure who could be the latest wannabe.
That's why even in the days of Saddam Hussein life actually wasn't that bad as long as you kept yourself and loved ones away from Uday and similar.
The dictators who stay in power usually keep a monopoly on violence so there aren't any upstarts. You severely punish anyone who takes over villages and sets themselves up as a warlord without your permission.
Thus it becomes fairly predictable - everyone knows the rules. The rules may be really crap but everyone knows that if they follow the rules, they and their family have a decent chance of still being alive and OK next month or even next year. And that's how dictators or even conventional governments in general stay in power. Once you can't ensure some semblance of order, you're no longer a ruler or government. People might decide it's worth a gamble to try killing you.