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Related: About this forumWhat this country needs is more government monitoring of the internet
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Harvard is either the best at the "wrong answers only" meme format, or the very very worst at not authoritarianism.
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Fmr. Bush admin lawyer/current Harvard Law prof Jack Goldsmith goes full-Thomas Friedman, credits China's enlightened authoritarian approach to information as "largely right" and laments the US' provincial fealty to the First Amendment as "largely wrong." https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/
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Lawyer who signed off on significant portions of Bush's warrantless mass-surveillance system still thinks he was right.
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What this country needs is more government monitoring of the internet (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2020
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J_William_Ryan
(1,751 posts)1. Further proof that Republicans/conservatives are unfit to govern.
Varaddem
(431 posts)2. Authoritarians don't govern.They rule
Funny plays for the word enlightened . Oh thats right this is the group that gave us WWJT. Who would Jesus torture?Is it hard to teach rule of law and democracy when you dont believe in it?
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)3. obviously
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
The data center is able to process "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all types of personal data trails parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'."
The data center is able to process "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all types of personal data trails parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'."