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From this article on vice.com:
The self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) has severely restricted use of the internet in its de-facto capital of Raqqa, requiring that all residents — including those in the militant group's ranks — access the web from observed internet cafes, according to international monitoring organizations.
An IS leaflet photographed and circulated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), advises that "all owners of shops with satellite internet must comply with the following: Removing Wi-Fi boosters in internet cafés as well as private wireless adaptors, even for soldiers of the Islamic State."
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Activists worry that internet restriction is intended to clamp down on citizen journalists, human rights workers, and potential IS defectors.
Even under IS rule, activists have managed to sneak out videos, images, and accounts of daily life. In September, a woman with a camera hidden in her niqab walked through the city narrating her experience. The smuggled footage was aired on French TV.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday July 21 2015, @10:15PM
And by that same standard, Al Qaida is a US/CIA operation, since Osama bin Laden was for quite a long time a CIA "asset".
The real story there is that the CIA is mostly incompetent, totalitarian, and incredibly short-sighted:
- The biggest testament to its incompetence is Cuba: Between the Bay of Pigs and hundreds of failed attempts to kill Fidel Castro, they've shown that they cannot carry out the mission they've been assigned to do.
- The basic argument for why they are totalitarian: It has not once overthrown a dictator and installed a democracy while it has done the opposite to a large percentage of the world. And these weren't friendly neighborhood dictators, we're talking mass murder, summary execution, and torture here.
- As for short-sighted, almost all of our great enemies of recent decades have been former CIA assets, from Manuel Noriega to Saddam Hussein.
They mostly try to hide all this behind a wall of secrecy and killing people who they are afraid might talk. But frequently they get caught, for example attempting to overthrow Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.