Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs 370
itwbennett writes "Terrorist suspect Jose Pimentel had a blog on Google-owned Blogger. And so it follows that Senator Joe Lieberman sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page taking him to task because 'Blogger's Content Policy does not expressly ban terrorist content.' Lieberman also pointed out that YouTube does ban terrorist content and added that 'Google's inconsistent standards are adversely affecting our ability to counter violent Islamist extremism online.'"
Yea... (Score:5, Interesting)
So if we ban public content that indicates terrorism and force them to hide it better from the government, how would that be better at countering terrorism? At least if it's public everyone can see it and so can the government, which would enable them to do something about it, rather than being unprepared.
This Video Has Been Removed (Score:5, Interesting)
'Google's inconsistent standards are adversely affecting our ability to counter violent Islamist extremism online.'"
Well Mr. Lieberman, you're quite the one to talk about inconsistent standards. And I'm sure censorship is most definitely the best way to fight terrorism online. It always works, right? Right?
US Government: Fighting the symptoms, and not the causes. To get one vote at a time.
Who decides who's a terrorist? (Score:5, Interesting)
Should google label anything from the US government as terroristic?
These days, no one can really tell who's the good guys, with random bizarre wars and occupations so on.
"These Palestinians looks like they have some pretty good land we Jews can take.. Let's take it with US government funding!"
Lieberman causes terror (Score:5, Interesting)
It's guys like Lieberman that drag American into the whole Middle-east religious wars, due to his fundamentalist support for Israel.
I propose that whenever Google reports search results pertaining to Lieberman, they're required to mark-up him as being a root-cause of America's terrorism problem.
how do you catch terrorists? (Score:4, Interesting)
You track them.
How do you track them?
You lure them our into the open.
How do you get them in the open?
You lull them into a false sense of complacency.
If you prevent this content, it still it exists, it just moves underground. The serious terrorists are already encrypting and doing steganography, its about catching casual idiots like this guy.
So senator joe is no tactician. Allow this content, and monitor it for the lone yahoos. Basic strategy joe
Re:Hey, guess what! (Score:1, Interesting)
Why does the US Constitution matter for the Senator R/D- from Israel?
Re:Hey, guess what! (Score:5, Interesting)
Not true. Subversives did things like blow up shipping docks to intimidate British merchants and military. Bombings and such were relatively rare because they were so hard to successfully carry out at the time, but they certainly did happen. Americans also spread propaganda in London and other cities to try to change public opinion (while I don't consider this terrorism, it falls under what we label as "terrorism" today).
VOTE! "WHO'S WRECKING AMERIKKKA?" (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C6lZPebJiN4 [youtube.com]
http://www.whoarethe1percent.com/ [whoarethe1percent.com]
Re:VOTE! "WHO'S WRECKING AMERIKKKA?" (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Hey, guess what! (Score:4, Interesting)
But does warfare against industrial sites count as terrorism, where the primary intent is to damage that site's abilities rather than instill fear of death in the general population, really count as terrorism?
If the answer to your question is no, then 9/11 was not a terrorist attack.
Oh, and the answer to your question is no. Attacking infrastructure is not terrorism.
Maybe if you can just take out infrastructure without hurting or endangering anyone you have a point. As soon as you do either of these things though you stray so far away from acceptable behaviour that causing terror is a pretty good definition.
By the way, I do also take this to the conclusion that police officers tear gassing peaceful protesters are also guilty of state sponsored and sanctioned terrorism. I would like to see them in the dock too, I would just give them a lesser sentence than someone who actually committed murder.