nilcypher said:
Therumancer said:
Well strictly speaking my major issue is the fact that the companies running sites light this are playing along enough to allow goverments to control information. Since I feel the future of the planet is dependant on the spread of ideas, both pleasant and unpleasant, we should be taking hard core action to prevent anyone from blocking access to information. This includes Iran, and even more importantly China.
Truthfully I think that the purpose of diplomacy and negotiation has failed when such negotiation puts an end to futher ideas and dialogue.
Or at least such are my thoughts here. I'm not sure who actually runs Facebook, but I think the goverment should be taking action to ensure that nations can't block it off like this. This might lead to other kinds of bans, but those will in turn lead to resistance, and the spread of ideas continueing even more fervently underground.
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I'm a little confused, which government should be taking action?
Well that would be the United States goverment ultimatly. I am not sure who actually runs Facebook or where they are located. If an American run company then the US needs to get on them, if a company in another country then the US needs to get on that goverment and presure them into not letting Iran cut them off. Whatever it takes basically.
But then again I felt the same way when Google cut a deal with China to allow the chinese goverment to censor their content for political reasons and such. I sort of felt Google needed to be slapped down hard.
See, without action being taken against major information service providers they are going to do whatever it takes to reach into these nations to pimp advertising or whatever since that is how they make their money. There is however a principle involved that goes beyond that and as they are providing a service of sorts, part of that service includes not giving in to such goverments during peacetime.
I mean honestly I can't see firing cruise missles or sub tactical nukes into Tehran over Facebook, but it's a big enough issue where I definatly think life should be made exceedingly difficult for whomever DOES make desicians for that group until they decide that they are going to push into those nations uncensored no matter what the goverment thinks about it.
Honestly, we spent a long time dealing with the effects of the USSR's "Iron Curtain" and we're foolish to allow other nations to try and do (or continue doing in China's case) the same thing.
I mean when you get down to it they want to stop the flow of information because it is likely to lead to pro-democratic/anti-theocratic sentiments as much as anything.
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