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Survey: 1 in 6 writers have self-censored because of NSA surveillance
http://america.aljazeera.com/ ^ | November 21, 2013 | Claire Gordon

Posted on 11/24/2013 10:00:50 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

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To: humblegunner

LOL


21 posted on 11/24/2013 10:59:18 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: EternalHope13

The case I remember caused a big stir here and went through several threads. Like you say, there were probably more.


22 posted on 11/24/2013 11:06:29 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: ilovesarah2012

Probably more than 1 in 6.


23 posted on 11/24/2013 11:06:55 AM PST by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: bgill
You wonder how many refused to say they had been affected to keep off that radar...(cause if you had something to hide...)
24 posted on 11/24/2013 11:29:31 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: MUDDOG; gonzo

That was Gonzo.


25 posted on 11/24/2013 11:39:49 AM PST by OwenKellogg (Fundamental transformation sucks.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
There’s no way to quantify the students who don’t join their college’s “legalize marijuana” club, or the number of Arab-Americans who avoid political topics via email. Absences are murky to measure.
IOW, even *this* is a shill piece. Thanks ilovesarah2012.


26 posted on 11/24/2013 11:45:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: OwenKellogg

Yes!


27 posted on 11/24/2013 12:34:41 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: EternalHope13

See post #25.


28 posted on 11/24/2013 12:36:21 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: ilovesarah2012

If these writers are that afraid - and are unable to grow a backbone - they need to go into a different line of work.


29 posted on 11/24/2013 1:21:20 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: redpoll
Which is the real reason for Al Jazeera to print this story.

Bingo.

30 posted on 11/24/2013 1:23:19 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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Obama Ally Jarret Promises Vengeance Against All Opposition

• Valerie Jarrett: ‘After We Win This Election, It’s Our Turn Payback Time’ « :
Openly declared as “Obama’s Brain”, and the figure whose second story West Wing office has been described by political insiders as the true Oval Office of the Obama White House, Valerie Jarrett is letting it be known that if Barack Obama secures election victory next week, there may be, quite literally, hell to pay for those who opposed him…
…The part that really stuck out to me was when I overheard the rep say that Jarrett told them, “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.” She was talking directly to about three of them. Sr. staff. And she wasn’t trying to be quiet about it at all. And they were all listening and shaking their heads and smiling while she said it.

http://conservativehideout.com/2012/11/04/obama-ally-jarret-promises-vengeance-against-all-opposition/

I admit I would be scared, too. They don’t play. And apparently congress is scared as well because they have not done anything to stop them.


31 posted on 11/24/2013 2:54:31 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: null and void

I am surprised that the number isn’t larger


32 posted on 11/24/2013 3:46:46 PM PST by Nifster
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To: humblegunner

Not this blogger. This blogger is sick of NSA or whoever it is that is stealing my emails, making my computer run slowly or crashing, making Word not work, etc at critical times in my research and communications with law enforcement. I get no benefit from the number of hits and nostly care about getting the rule of law back. Having the anti-virus companies give the NSA a back-door way to put viruses on the computers of people who don’t like this regime’s lawlessness is disgusting because viruses can make it so difficult to slog through the information-gathering process that it neutralizes our ability for the truth to tie its shoes before the regime’s lies circle the globe 20 times and do all the damage intended.

If they’re not able to intimidate bloggers into silence they can always virus them into silence, and it seems like the news now is that they’re doing precisely that. That news doesn’t surprise me a bit. Fits what I’ve been saying all along.


33 posted on 11/25/2013 8:12:22 AM PST by butterdezillion (Free online faxing at http://faxzero.com/ Fax all your elected officials. Make DC listen.)
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To: humblegunner
You could start a blog about the perils and nuisance of blogs...and how they are established purely to generate hits ;-) I wonder how many hits you would get.

Clog the Blog blog

34 posted on 11/25/2013 8:24:48 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: butterdezillion

Seems more likely that you’re getting viruses from visiting blogs, rather than writing one.


35 posted on 11/25/2013 8:43:55 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Jane Long
You could start a blog about the perils and nuisance of blogs.

Then I'd be tempted to pimp it and then would have to go after myself for being a blogpimp.

Give myself fits, it would.

36 posted on 11/25/2013 9:17:31 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

I don’t visit blogs.


37 posted on 11/25/2013 9:33:22 AM PST by butterdezillion (Free online faxing at http://faxzero.com/ Fax all your elected officials. Make DC listen.)
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To: butterdezillion

Not even birther blogs?


38 posted on 11/25/2013 9:35:38 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Depends how you define “blog” I guess. I’ve looked on birtherreport.

I’ve had 2 computer experts tell me that what I’ve experienced could not have been done by viruses alone. They would have to involve the phone company or a federal agency such as NSA, FBI, or DHS.


39 posted on 11/25/2013 9:39:32 AM PST by butterdezillion (Free online faxing at http://faxzero.com/ Fax all your elected officials. Make DC listen.)
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To: butterdezillion

Yep, that’s a blog.

Taitz site is also known to be laden with all manner of disease.


40 posted on 11/25/2013 9:42:13 AM PST by humblegunner
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