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LOL Backfire!Dear Dictators:Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter
21 Mar 2014 10:29 #1
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
ROTFLMAO, I love it! D'oh! 
:rofllol Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.
Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter
By Chris Taylor
Mashable Op-Ed
March 21, 2014
:rofllol Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter
By Chris Taylor
Mashable Op-Ed
March 21, 2014
So how was your day, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan? We're guessing it didn't go quite the way you intended . For example, several million fewer people on this planet didn't associate your name, if they knew it at all, with the word "dictator."
But that was the top worldwide trending hashtag for many long primetime hours on Twitter Thursday — #DictatorErdoğan.
Only trouble is, Twitter gave you a black eye. Spray-painted on your election posters across Turkey are mysterious and revolutionary sets of numbers. You're probably not tech-savvy enough to know what they are, but they're numbers for DNS servers. Everyone in your country is but two clicks on "Settings" away from flouting your ridiculous Twitter ban.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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21 Mar 2014 11:10 #4
by Reverend Revelant
The printing press, pamphleteers, radio, the telephone, shortwave radio, television, fax machines, copy machines, cell phones, the internet... they are all still here, and every single one of those inventions (and many more peripheral ones) have helped expand freedom of speech, good or bad speech, bitter or sweet speech... and for every invention that is suppressed, 10 more will crop up in their place.
Even My Mountain Town.
Waiting for Armageddon since 33 AD
Replied by Reverend Revelant on topic LOL Backfire!Dear Dictators:Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter
ScienceChic wrote: ROTFLMAO, I love it! D'oh!
The printing press, pamphleteers, radio, the telephone, shortwave radio, television, fax machines, copy machines, cell phones, the internet... they are all still here, and every single one of those inventions (and many more peripheral ones) have helped expand freedom of speech, good or bad speech, bitter or sweet speech... and for every invention that is suppressed, 10 more will crop up in their place.
Even My Mountain Town.
Waiting for Armageddon since 33 AD
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