Telecomix Releases 54GB of Syrian Censorship Logs 51
pafein writes "Hacktivist cluster Telecomix released 54 gigabytes of Syrian censorship log data. The anonymized log data was collected from seven of 15 Bluecoat SG-9000 HTTP proxies used by Syrian government telco and ISP STE. Preliminary analysis revealed such keywords as proxy and Israel were blocked. And of course, much porn. The data set provides a unique look at Internet censorship from the inside. Internauts who enjoy regexes and charts are invited to help make a pretty infographic. Telecomix's #opsyria has been fighting censorship and facilitating communications [note: French language link] in Syria for the past few weeks, providing TOR, VPNs and technical advice and support via IRC. They've also been providing DNS service for The Pirate Bay."
Can't be right (Score:4, Insightful)
Arab men don't look at/for porn. It is forbidden by the dominant religion over there.
Must be some sort of mistake... or an Israeli plot.
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So is violence (as with most religions) /guidelines/ than actual rules</barbossa>
<barbossa>There're more what you'd call
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Don't worry. Islam is just as (IMHO more) barbaric than the Old and New Testaments.
While we're posting biased but well sourced links: http://www.wikiislam.net/ [wikiislam.net]
Posted AC to reduce the probability of my murder.
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FUUUUCK.
Tired and forgot to anonymise. It's been nice knowing y'all.
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Posted AC to reduce the probability of my murder
Not sure if this is an impressive fail, or part of the joke...
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So is alcohol, yet I've seen quite a few drunk arabs in my life.
That's just the "terrists" way of blending into the background, trying to look like us infidels.
Based on that, the DHS can round up all the drunks and ship 'em all off to Gitmo. :-)
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Indeed. The tigther the "official" rules for behaviour, the more hypocrisy.
Catholic priests aren't actually all celibate. Muslims don't all avoid alcohol. Jews don't all avoid pizza. Mormons don't all stick to ths missionary position, and wait until marriage with sex.
They just lie about it. Because the official rules don't allow them to openly admit to being human, like the rest of us.
To add insult to injury, they then go on to claim they're morally superior. Yet it's pretty hard to see how lying makes you
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Jews don't all avoid pizza
I'm going out on a limb, but I don't think the word "pizza" appears anywhere in the Old Testament.
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I'm not certain, but I think the GP's comment was some obscure reference to the myriad and varied (and probably self-inconsistent) dietary laws of the various Jewish sects. There's probably some rule against eating dairy and tomato in the same meal, which would make almost any formulation that fits "pizza" impossible.
(By "Jewish" I include the various derivative sects such as Christia
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Arab men don't look at/for porn. It is forbidden by the dominant religion over there.
Advice: feel free to say it, don't bet anything on it. It's like saying "not a single american drunk anything with alcohol in it during prohibition". FAIL.
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Not everyone in Syria is Muslim. Not all those who are nominally Muslim actually practice the religion. And some of those who do practice still break the rules (alcohol, etc). Welcome to the real world.
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Have you been to Syria? It's quite a complicated place, and has a fascinating history :)
I was there last year, slightly before the uprisings started. While I did most of the usual backpacker routes (Damascus, Hamah, Aleppo, Palmyra), with the occasional getting lost, hitchhiking and crossing to/from Lebanon using odd routes), I met a lot of people who barely spoke English and just felt like communicating. I found people to be very open minded, proud of their culture, curious about others and somewhat indiff
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That's part of that censorship deal. Big brother doesn't come home, and TELL YOU that he's done a hard day's work of killing people! You have to figure it out on your own. So, if you don't look at the blood tracked across the living room, you might think that it's just mud or something.
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A better link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria [wikipedia.org].
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Per capita, Arab countries have the highest rates of sex slaves, prostitutes, and underground drinking.
Citation needed, because there's a lot of prostitution going on in the rest of the world. Hell, we even have web sites [adultwork.com] where prostitutes are listed and rated like any other product would be on Amazon or Ebay. As for underground drinking: half of British 11 to 15 year olds regularly drink alcohol. 75% of Russian teenagers regularly drink vodka. What are the figures for Arab countries?
drugs are readily available but far less popular than drinking. In most of these countries, you can pick up the phone and have just about any preference in prostitute delivered to your door in minutes to hours
So, just like non-Arab countries, then?
In Arab countries there is what they say and then there is what they do. It is a cultural imperative and deeply rooted in all aspects of their society.
Still not seeing how this is different to non-Arab countries? Politicians and the relig
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Arab men don't look at/for porn. It is forbidden by the dominant religion over there.
It is also forbidden by the dominant religion in the U.S.
Religious people are often hypocrites...
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Arab men don't look at/for porn. It is forbidden by the dominant religion over there.
It is also forbidden by the dominant religion in the U.S.
Religious people are often hypocrites...
Hmmm.... you might be on to something there, there seems to be a pattern of behavior but I just can't figure it out....
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Arab men don't look at/for porn. It is forbidden by the dominant religion over there.
Lots of things are forbidden by most religions, yet anyone can see that they still happen anyway.
Infographic (Score:2)
Has anyone made one yet?
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For the younger generations... (Score:1)
Cycles are cheap, bandwidth/time isn't. (Score:2)
For hell's sake, man, this is 2011! Why any compressible data is still released using gzip, when xz (even bzip2) is way better, is totally beyond me.
Squash those bits, man! Squash 'em good!