Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites 361
bs0d3 writes "A new law in Belarus prohibits people from using 'foreign' websites. The law requires that all companies and individuals who are registered as entrepreneurs in Belarus use only domestic Internet domains for providing online services, conducting sales, or exchanging email messages. The tax authorities and the secret police are authorized to investigate violations."
Re:Geek perspective: websites (Score:3, Interesting)
You might want to mention that Obama fought against those provisions, and managed to weaken several key ones, and stated "My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens ... doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation.”
The Republicans forced this through by attaching these totalitarian provisions to the NDAA (which is passed every year to set the budget for the Department of Defense). The Democrats tried their best to weaken the new provisions - voting all but unanimously against them (the lone bad Democrat was Peterson of Minnesota). In the end, the people to blame are the idiot voters who thought that the Republicans had changed since the Bush years and gave the House back to them in 2010.
I don't see why you would fail to mention this, unless you were intentionally trying to mislead people about who exactly was behind these new laws.
Re:Geek perspective: websites (Score:5, Interesting)
It is quite authoritarian at the federal level, between defacto one party rule (I refuse to consider R and D to be sufficiently different ideologically to be considered distinct parties, they are more like a liberal and conservative wings of the old CPSU) and absolutely mad lobbyism there is a real abyss between ordinary people and what is going on in DC. It's almost a total disconnect like in other authoritarian countries like Russia. It is very different in countries like Norway for instance.
On the other hand below state level it's quite a lively democracy with real political competition and shifting balance of power. And the whole "legislation by court" is a rather unique American thing not present in other countries.
Re:Geek perspective: websites (Score:3, Interesting)
So you call me 'crazy person' instead of taking back all of the nonsense that you've been spewing here.
Fact [loc.gov] - this section, that was in version 4 of the bill is not in the final version (7) of the bill, it's skipped. [loc.gov]
Let's look at the section that is missing from the final bill, and it's taken out by the order of the Obama and his administration:
SEC. 1031. DEFINITION OF INDIVIDUAL DETAINED AT GUANTANAMO.
In this subtitle, the term `individual detained at Guantanamo' means any individual who is located at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on or after March 7, 2011, who--
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a member of the Armed Forces of the United States; and
(2) is in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense.
you can continue with your propaganda, that somehow Obama fought the evil Republicans tooth and nail to prevent the bad things from happening to the US citizens.
But he is the one who forced that section to be taken out, he is the one running the Gitmo concentration camp (as in a prison, where individuals kidnapped by a government force are placed without any lawful recourse, without ability to challenge their confinement in a court system).
Sure, it says: terrorists, bad people, Al Qaeda.
I say: anybody who a dictatorial 'elected' official deems to be a bad person, a terrorist, Al Qaeda 'member [wikipedia.org]' or 'sympathizer' (or maybe a relative [huffingtonpost.com]).
Just a matter of fact - now POTUS kills so called Al Qaeda members and their children that are US citizens found abroad, given the new power it's just going to be possible to put people into military concentration camps without any legal recourse, including US citizens, eventually those who are in US.
And I am crazy? OK, now good night, it's very late where I am.