Government Opression Soon to Be a Thing of the Past?

[n_huffhines]

My buddy and I have recently started to discuss the potential technology has to revolutionize government. We have convinced ourselves that time is ticking until governments will no longer be able to keep people down. Social networking has played a huge role in combating tyranny in many oppressive countries. Many countries have even banned social networks. This new technology will ensure countries can't maintain those sort of bans.

Alex Halderman (pictured at left), an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, is one of the developers of the software. In a recent interview he explained that people living under Internet censorship are already able to connect to third-party servers outside their country, but that it doesn’t take long for the government to find these servers and block them. Telex, on the other hand, turns the entire internet into an anti-censorship device.

I anxiously await other future technology that will ensure our freedom from tyranny.

Technology Keeping Internet Freedom Ahead of Censorship

 

[OrangeEmpire]

You have too much faith in people
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[n_huffhines]

You have too much faith in people
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You know you are saying this to a guy who has almost no faith whatsoever in government officials, right?

I have faith in incentives, and government doesn't create good incentives.

 

[MontereyVol]

Its new tech. The powers that be will find ways to be better at it than the common man.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

You know you are saying this to a guy who has almost no faith whatsoever in government officials, right?

I have faith in incentives, and government doesn't create good incentives.

ideolically I think we are spot on......

I just have a sense if humor and can recognize sarcasm naked......lol
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[OrangeEmpire]

Its new tech. The powers that be will find ways to be better at it than the common man.

people are too complacient to care
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[MontereyVol]

The government is already using this stuff against you.

 

[utvolpj]

I would disagree with the "combating tyranny" thing since many will just do what everyone else is doing while ignoring who is leading. People are stupid

 

[MontereyVol]

Bingo, may want to find out who the leaders are.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

I would disagree with the "combating tyranny" thing since many will just do what everyone else is doing while ignoring who is leading. People are stupid

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[MG1968]

how does a dependence on technology enhance your chances of escaping government tyranny?

social networks still require massive complexes filled to the rafters with servers, those servers are, for all intents and purposes, mechanical devices and thus vulnerable to attack.

 

[n_huffhines]

how does a dependence on technology enhance your chances of escaping government tyranny?

social networks still require massive complexes filled to the rafters with servers, those servers are, for all intents and purposes, mechanical devices and thus vulnerable to attack.

So China is going to nuke server farms in the US? I guess there is the possibility that a one world government arises and crushes all opposition.

 

[MG1968]

So China is going to nuke server farms in the US? I guess maybe a one world government could crush all opposition.

you don't get it, do you? an over-reliance on electronic gimgackery is a weakness, not a strength.

why do you think there is all this fear over EMP devices and why the government is working hard to harden it's networks against an EMP attack?

 

[BeecherVol]

I would disagree with the "combating tyranny" thing since many will just do what everyone else is doing while ignoring who is leading. People are stupid

Used to work for a guy that would say "people in general, are stupid". memories

 

[n_huffhines]

you don't get it, do you? an over-reliance on electronic gimgackery is a weakness, not a strength.

why do you think there is all this fear over EMP devices and why the government is working hard to harden it's networks against an EMP attack?

First of all, I don't understand this statement. How is it a weakness? If we weren't reliant on it, then it would mean we don't have it. If an EMP device destroys it, it just means we are back to square one, not worse off. It can only be considered a strength that we have a possibility of losing.

Second, sure EMP attacks can happen, but I'm willing to bet innovators can come up with something to protect us from EMP's.

 

[lumberjack4]

you don't get it, do you? an over-reliance on electronic gimgackery is a weakness, not a strength.

why do you think there is all this fear over EMP devices and why the government is working hard to harden it's networks against an EMP attack?

I personally stopped an EMP attack on the US in Bad Company 2. You're welcome.

 

[RespectTradition]

My buddy and I have recently started to discuss the potential technology has to revolutionize government. We have convinced ourselves that time is ticking until governments will no longer be able to keep people down. Social networking has played a huge role in combating tyranny in many oppressive countries. Many countries have even banned social networks. This new technology will ensure countries can't maintain those sort of bans.



I anxiously await other future technology that will ensure our freedom from tyranny.

Technology Keeping Internet Freedom Ahead of Censorship

I am in the middle of re-reading 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' for the gazillionth time. Ever read it?