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Jailed terror student 'hid' files in the wrong Windows folder

Delysid

Welcome to the Police State

How can linking to a publicly accessible website constitute part of a guilty verdict? Google must be due for several thousand consecutive life sentences.

And how can where you store documents on your own computer be used to secure criminal conviction?

And finally, how can people who support this miscarriage of justice and cheer on the dissolution of the tenuous boundary separating democracy from totalitarianism be so blind as to fail to realize on what side of the police state, and what end of a Taser gun, they will find themselves on when faced with trumped up charges based on who you know, what you say, where you web-browse?

Of course, it could never happen here, right?

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Right-to-reply website launches

Delysid

Myth of the "liberal" media

This kind of initiative coming from conservatives would, in the North American context, be bound up in the myth of the "liberal" media that right wingers perversely claim to be victims of, no matter how spinelessly the media in fact adheres to their corporate masters' dictates.

Not that they're entirely insincere. The American right has become so intolerant of debate and other quaint trappings of democracy that any departure from the party line is declared "liberal" bias.

Yet not even concentrated corporate media ownership and a cadre of ideologically groomed journalists can prevent the regular contravention and subversion of right-wing consensus, because it is reality itself that continually pounds away at the thick but crumbly bulwark of conservative self-delusion and denial.

Faith-based reality proves little defense against the continuous corrosive harm by being totally wrong about pretty much everything. Right-to-Reply won't help much either.

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