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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4262)	2/9/2004 5:26:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: Why restrict google, when all the radios, televisions, movie industry, magazines, and book publishing industry is already controlled? Everyone knows, who read those newspapers, that the internet is so unreliable and populated with kooks. It makes perfect sense for the NSA to control ACCESS to internet resources... Think about it: mainstream media are all safely under control because they're all, one way or the other, the property of media tycoons Murdoch, Mohn (Bertelsmann), Conrad Black, Berlusconi, etc. So, if, say, a disgruntled intelligencer or rogue insider wants to blow the whistle on anything, he'll be censored --and identified-- by the proper editorial watchdog.... Well, that's no longer true on the internet: people with sensitive, and potentially damaging info, can easily "spill the beans" over the internet anonymously. There's a drawback, however: our cyber-whistleblower has yet to advertise his "weblog" --which carries the risk of being identified. But that's not so big an obstacle in a cyberworld where the most popular search engines are unbiased, unbridled. If the most popular search engines are free to roam the internet and index every weblog they come across then conspiracy theorists will eventually hit upon the whistleblower's weblog --all they need is to type in the right key words in Google... Enter the NSA --and its Google front. If NSA freaks don't want you to know about a particular weblog, all they have to do is to remove it from Google's database (or adress-base). Bottom line: NSA control-freaks may not be able to prevent sensitive material from wafting over the internet, but they can make sure you'll never find it.... Gus