Internet Freedom and the Erosion of Democracy: Internet activist Rebecca MacKinnon blasts government surveillance worldwide.

sassypants101 · 2012-05-25T14:22:52.407335+00:00

"Azerbaijan is a classic example of how, even when people are free to connect to the global Internet, they can be subject to pervasive, unaccountable, and unconstrained surveillance"

sassypants101 · 8 days

This is the kind of article that good generate really meaningful debate on this sub-reddit. But things get down voted so fast by people who feel threatened by these kinds of challenging questions.

sassypants101 · 1 month

I'm going to venture to say that the down voting here is by Tory trolls, who didn't even open the link to read the article.

sassypants101 · 1 month

fuck yeah it is!

sassypants101 · 1 month

powerful as ever unfortunately.

trot-trot · 1 month

what hurts me is I can tell you believe yourself...

trot-trot · 1 month

There are bigger fish to fry (ahem, China, Saudi Arabia) than Cuba if you want to talk authoritarian and repressive dictatorships. And to imply that isolation has worked in any way but to punish the people of Cuba is naive and dishonest. Remember Nixon? He went to China...

I wasn't arguing that Cuba was important economically for Canada. I was trying to point out that we have strong economic ties the Harper government is happy to continue while simultaneously preaching some moralistic stand against the regime.

trot-trot · 1 month

Typical Conservative distraction. First off, we have more than economic ties. Canada is one Cuba's biggest trading partners. THis makes the bluster and fire from the PM even more ludicrous.

Whatever the Liberal government did previously, it matters little... The fact is, that at the Summit yesterday, Harper chose to stand shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. on these issues. Wrong side of history.

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