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August 20th, 2013

stas: (Default)
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 12:30 am
Ого:

British agents oversaw the destruction of an unspecified number of the Guardian newspaper's hard drives in an apparent bid to keep Edward Snowden's leaks safe, the paper's editor said Monday.

Alan Rusbridger made the claim in an opinion piece published on the Guardian's website, saying that a pair of staffers from British eavesdropping agency GCHQ monitored the process in what he called "one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history."

И ещё, точка зрения официальных лиц:

The man from Whitehall looked mystified. "You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more."

Типа - попиздели и хватит, не мешайте людям делом заниматься. К сожалению, у них есть серьёзные основания для такой точки зрения. 
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Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 12:56 am
Джон Керри об интернете:

“It [the internet] makes it much harder to govern, it makes it much harder to organize people, much harder to find the common interest and that is complicated by a rise of sectarianism and religious extremism that is prepared to employ violent means to impose on other people a way of thinking and a way of living that is completely contrary to everything the United States of America has ever stood for. So we need to keep in mind what our goals are and how complicated this world is that we’re operating in