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China's situation is entirely different. 1: The Asia Pacific is "hitting the knee on the curve" and modernizing its economy. Also, it's the most populous region on earth. It's why …

> If there wasn't a legal risk, why would the Guardian have complied? They were at gunpoint. If there was merely a legal risk, it would have been sorted out by the courts and with …

American documents were leaked to journalists and that was a legally gray problem in the UK? Don't be silly. Imagine if some Saudi documents were leaked to journalists and the Amer…

This conversation on HN can essentially be boiled down to "law versus ethics". Those supporting censorship make basic references to it being okay because it is legal. Those opposed…

This has actually already been determined. For instance, businesses are required to serve all colors regardless of sexual orientation, color, religion, etc. It's a regressive part …

The HN readership has its own fascistic tendencies, including a large portion of its membership that defends censorship, surveillance and propaganda. Increasingly, that's represent…

Because the UK government has a censorship program that prevented journalists from reporting on source material relevant to the interests of their citizens.

When well-defined rules include "content that the government wants to suppress because it criticized them" the rules provide censorship via moderation. In this case, Facebook - pre…

No person is claiming that "moderation is censorship". Merely, this specific act of moderation was an implementation of censorship. Moderation and censorship are two different thin…

Something can be both moderation and censorship at the same time. You are presenting a false dichotomy.

In no way was there an attempt to transfer risk. Facebook was a community platform where I could reach out to the people I knew and loved - my friends and family. That's the only r…

Having been censored multiple times by tech firms, I fall squarely into one camp. During the Snowden Disclosures, I took to Facebook with the documents getting published and starte…

Was talking here about the regulatory requirements for mortgages to be accepted in the first place as well as the rather lax regulatory regime (in practice) that was in effect at t…

Let me clarify here that I did not intend to communicate that "everything everywhere was completely 100% good except for the bad US mortgage packaging". This was my miscommunicatio…

Are we interpreting the bailout of a global US-created financial crisis "saving the world" now? Here's what happened: - The international market, particularly the Asian market, bur…

Absolutely. If your system is doing "all the right security stuff" and then nobody knows about it - sure, you're secure - but nobody knows that or how you are secure. And that's a …

Real security is almost all technical and implementation. There's a very significant danger to security that policies be some kind of front line of defense, or be implemented over …

HN is for technical conversation, which includes being impressed and commenting on the state of the art. Seriously encourage reading about capabilities, especially the operations s…

Sorry for the opaque comment. Was gushing over the cool exploits of the "Inception Group" or "RedOctober APT" - believed but not proven to be Russian espionage. https://www.symante…

Russia's cyber military is James Bond level cool. There are speculations (nobody can prove it) that they set up their own TOR using onion-like proxies, with a custom crypto protoco…

China does not do that. You've abused terminology in order to try to make the argument fit, post factum. But at least your argument has a strong thesis.

> It's less aggressive than China in terms of being used to control the lives of the entire population of the country, though. I'm not sure that's true. NSA and other US domestic s…

US: Drone assassination program, kills based off metadata score. Global rendition and torture program. Largest prison population on the planet, exhibiting UN criticized torture, fo…