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Why worry about it. Sudan has been getting a front seat viewing of "existential risk" for some time now. Fuck the UAE. Beautiful people - bullshit governments. Per usual.
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Well, how would you a) obtain the incriminating photo, then b) determine that it had been transmitted? An OS exploit and stat() for an atime would do it.
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The censorship is dual purpose. They want to make it so Iran doesn’t know if they successfully hit that Oracle data centre. But they also want to make it so foreign investors don’t get scared off by the prospect of their data centre getting blown up. Obviously investors will avoid the area so long as missiles are flying - but by coming through the conflict "unscathed" will let them bounce back fast. Likewise with tou…
Isn’t Ukraine’s censorship dual purpose as well? They are more likely to get funding from EU if they can make it look like they can win the war. Which of these is the bigger motivation? Hard to say. But I gather most drones have cameras, so I imagine Russia has a pretty good idea of where their drones are striking.
In fact, the laws and rules between Ukraine and these countries were and still are much different. Regardless of attempts to make them sound the same.
Also EU pays Ukraine because them not folding makes Europe safer. If Ujraine fails, Russia will attack other European countries.
> publishing information deemed harmful to state interests Is the charge, which I think kind of speaks for itself. Full on: "You embarrassed us, straight to jail." In most of the world such photos would be deemed of public interest and shared by the media then we'd reflect on if our routing is safe/correct and make proportional changes for safety. Not a big deal, nobody is fired, life moves on. I feel like actions li…
> In most of the world such photos would be deemed of public interest You'd absolutely get detained by authorities in Ukraine or Russia for sharing consequences of airstrikes on critical infrastructure. I'm sure other countries would do the same (not that it's good).
Ukraine is not trying they are safe country as of now.
In modern conflicts, sharing photos or videos of the results of enemy attacks greatly aids in their battle damage assessments. It's informative to look at history, and see how censorship as effective, as it was here in the US during WWII.[1] The Japanese were floating bombs into the US, which were effectively unguided intercontinental weapons. The censorship campaign kept all knowledge of the effects from reaching ba…
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Isn’t Ukraine’s censorship dual purpose as well? They are more likely to get funding from EU if they can make it look like they can win the war. Which of these is the bigger motivation? Hard to say. But I gather most drones have cameras, so I imagine Russia has a pretty good idea of where their drones are striking.
UAE is not democratic country in the first place. Never pretended to be one. Saudo Arabia is neither and proud of being autocracy. In fact, the laws and rules between Ukraine and these countries were and still are much different. Regardless of attempts to make them sound the same. Also EU pays Ukraine because them not folding makes Europe safer. If Ujraine fails, Russia will attack other European countries.
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The censorship is dual purpose. They want to make it so Iran doesn’t know if they successfully hit that Oracle data centre. But they also want to make it so foreign investors don’t get scared off by the prospect of their data centre getting blown up. Obviously investors will avoid the area so long as missiles are flying - but by coming through the conflict "unscathed" will let them bounce back fast. Likewise with tou…
Isn’t Ukraine’s censorship dual purpose as well? They are more likely to get funding from EU if they can make it look like they can win the war. Which of these is the bigger motivation? Hard to say. But I gather most drones have cameras, so I imagine Russia has a pretty good idea of where their drones are striking.
What people do not know or understand about the Arabian Peninsula is that you have essentially zero rights. People think, "It cannot be that bad" because a lot of money is spent on good PR for the region, and also because they never find themselves in situations where they get to see how little their lives are worth in those places. You go to a hotel for a week or take a business trip, everyone smiles, the food is go…
> "Well, yeah, if you do something egregious...", nope. Leaving a bad review online for a local business can get you arrested and jailed.
I'm of two minds on this. In peacetime, I'd consider something like that to be unreasonable and harmful, not that I'd ever even consider setting foot anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula. But, if anyone has noticed, World War III is raging all around us, and when an enemy who wants to kill you is backing that up with explosive payloads, you really don't want to be handing them battle damage assessments.
If you give away freedom for security you deserve neither
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> "Well, yeah, if you do something egregious...", nope. Leaving a bad review online for a local business can get you arrested and jailed.
Are you talking about Germany? https://support.google.com/maps/thread/395192907/is-it-norma...