google does not hold fast when presented by National Security Letters, and other bits of government and media company ordered censorship, you know, when it matters most, such as actual policy discussions on the line, not covering up personal dirty laundry so someone can go on living their life.

Google is flying a huge double standard cooperating with the US authorities censorship of information for state and corporate, while snubbing european rules that protect common citizens.

redactions happen on page 12 in small print, and no one ever reads them. They correct bad information all the time, but in a format that most people miss, because its so obscure. Your not alone in missing it, but your somewhat correct that it almost might as well not exist, because its published in a way no one notices.

this is absolutely correct. However, Americans love a good lynch mob, and American Media likes to blow things out of proportion, especially non-existant threats posed by people who are outsiders to society, government, and the econony. In fact its essential to People feeling fearful and needing a large government to protect them.

There is no "free speech" either, as the government censors, and the press covers up, or simply hushes up the worst done by people in power. There is a "privledge of being forgotten", which is something celebrities, the rich, politicians, and those who've earned their favor(like witness protection), have.

"the public has the right to know", and "threats to the public", are some what sham answers, because they are very much one sided

at least in debian you can dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest, and it asks you if you want to participate and is fairly transparent about the proccess.

I can trollolol people in jolly good England all day long, but if they troll us back, we can report them?

bloody hell.

Helvetica was the default font of OS classic back in the 1990s

Mabey either shift the resources back into housing the homeless, mabey we can close the prisons, save some money and give it back to the tax payers.

We could probably rent the grounds to paintballers, airsofties and the military for tacticle manuevers, as all three groups would probably go apeshit nuts to do this.

We might turn this into parks, perhaps save one or two as a muesem to epic failure of mass incarceration of non-violent offenders.

There are a handful of links between PETA and ALF, but the two are radically diffrent organizations. That said, PETA does not engage in terrorism on its own right.

I personally think PETA is fucking insane, but terrorists they are not, and you've shown me nothing conclusive that PETA is actively involved in terrorism, other than linking to ALF. Don't get me wrong, I'm not apologizing for PETA, and I think they are a bunch of jackasses, but I really don't think they are any worse than garden variety trolls. The major diffrence is that if you ignore PETA, they'll go away. If you ignore ALF, they'll blow you up.

ALF(like their inspiration ELF), are, as you've stated real terrorist groups. PETA and greenpeace are not. There are much broader implications than PETA and greenpeace in being overly broad with your classification of terrorism and terrorist groups. This, and how the US government treats terrorism are a far bigger issue that effects far more people than terrorism itself.

For a low end webserver, the HW of a cellphone will do, as will many ARM development boards like odroid xdroid, beagleboard.

In addition there is pogoplug, plug computers, etc....

This has been done already, and there are already many viable solutions, commericially

very loosely enforced, I've been running home servers for over a decade.

Look: This is an init system, not a new kernel, and not a new c library. It does not take system calls. All programs will still run. All you really need to do to port daemons is make new systemd units to replace scripts in. Unless you were dense enough to hardcode those calls, and then simple bash script shims that function the same. The other big issue is you might need syslog functionaility, something you can turn on in systemd.

your code will work just fine. I know this, because I know how a UNIX-like OS works.

I can already tell your outfit is a joke. you don't have a testing enviroment? Where is devops? systemd is Free as in beer as well as Free as in speech. I won't tell you how to do your job, but simply downloading CentOS, something Redhat actually approves of, and trying it in your testing enviroment, before you load it on your RHEL servers

If I worked for your company, I would guarantee your code would run on RHEL7. Your not paying me so I can't guaruntee anything for you, or more correctly, I won't. That is the exact wrong attitude.

I took a few business courses in college and they warned me about people like you. They said if people either stick to dogma, or can't tell you why things work, leave, because they don't have a clue what they are doing.

When it comes to big scary unknown things like computer hacking, just about all bit of common decency goes out the window.

They held kevin mitnick without charge for a long time before letting him out. That was pre-9/11.

They just have to claim your an "enemy combatant", or some other class that no applying law applies too

I have no idea.

but the point is, to force the cops to need a warrant, or the courts to need a subopena, where you have other methods fo defending yourself such as lawyers. We aren't trying to stop all police actions, just police abuse. One of the tell-tale signs is subversive activity, such as the cops not fully disclosing to the public, or even the government they report to the full extent of their activities, making it impossible for any true reform of the police.

When you have strong encryption, you make it harder for the police to be subversive, electronicly.

not really.

Even with "manditory key disclosure" durring criminal trials, you have the benefit of needing to go to trial to give up your keys. The police can't randomly search your data, which encryption the police cannot break becomes a major lever against police abusing their power. Thats the point. They need a warrant, which means they need a judge, and probable cause, and a paper trail you can fight in court.

Even if thats all bogus, it becomes public record, so the public can have an informed debate over who the police are searching and why.

As opposed to breakable crypto, where the cops can just crack anyone's setup, without the need for justification.