I assume this "airs" thing they speak of has to do with those "television" things old people stare at. I have not had one of those in years and I see no reason to get one. It's about 10 years too late to try "airing" things within a reasonable time-frame from when the show is released in my case. I know some people under 30 who own a TV which is hooked up to their computer or XBox, but I know very few who actually watch TV-channels anymore. I know old people (50-60+) like their propaganda box, but it's a bit late to try to attract younger people who are used to getting all media from the Internet.

This is already the case. If you write something which goes against government propaganda in Norway (and other NATO countries) then the government tortures you. It's already dangerous to have opinions different from the government approved list. I know a lot of people here will violently oppose this truth, but deal with it: we have to truthfully asses the current situation in order to improve it, and improvement really is needed. Free speech is a nice theory that I would like to see become practice.

There is no war on terror. It's all just media propaganda. There has not been a single major terrorist attack the last 100 years which was not a false-flag attack. If you still haven't figured out that 9/11 was an inside job then consider this: There's hundreds of videos and pictures who clearly show massive steel beams being thrown up and away during the _demolition_ of WTC 1 and 2. The official story is that gravity made these buildings come down. Gravity does not make things fall up. Try dropping something and check it out for yourself. You're in a fascist dictatorship with an illusion of freedom, just like everyone else within the NATO alliance.

Looks like the Slashdot Propaganda Ministry is working overtime this week. Want to end terrorism? Investigate the 7/7 london bombings. Investigate 9/11. Look into the history of Al-CIAda. It really is very simple: If you learn the truth and tell as many people about it as you can then governments will no longer see false-flag terrorism as a viable means to rally the people and they will simply stop doing it and find other ways to fool the people to support wars and such. Buy into government propaganda and stories like this ./ propaganda article and you show you are buying this crap - and that actually encourages NATO & governments to carry out more false-flag attacks. Government kills someone you love in a false-flag terrorist attack? Well, it's your own fault for being stupid & ignorant.

Western NATO countries like Norway use surveillance as a first initial step against people who say anything which goes against government propaganda. Sabotage is the next and that's usually followed by torture. So keep in mind that surveillance is not the big problem here, they just do surveillance to find out who to target and torture for writing or saying the "wrong thing". Stop the surveillance of everyone and fewer people get tortured. You can debate if surveillance is a human rights violation or not, but it should be obvious that torture is.

"conspiracy theorist" is a term with two words, conspire and theory. If two people rob a bank and the bank manager calls the police then the police does not respond by saying "that's a stupid conspiracy theory", they actually look at the evidence. "conspiracy theorist" today means "person who thinks for himself" and it is used exclusively by people who don't.

I agree that one should question RedHat and a few other GNU/Linux distributions. Luckily we do not have to use RedHat if we choose to use GNU/Linux, there are many other variants. NSA may have a harder time getting their backdoors into Debian / Ubuntu than they have with RH, but there are questions there too. Anyone remember that "mistake" in Debians OpenSSL code which made it generate useless certificates for years without anyone noticing? As for the kernel itself.. I don't see it as likely that anyone would manage to put a backdoor in there. But it's open source, so you can I can and should take a look. Overall, I'd say you are much better off using Linux than Windows.

Don't expect this or other mainstream sites to tell the truth on this one ever. It will probably be like the gulf of tonkin incident 20 years from now, CIA admitted it was all fake and all fabricated 10 years ago yet local school history book still stick with the official story.

Actually, a lot of NATO countries covertly tortured people for telling the truth about 9/11. Surveillance and sabotage just wasn't enough for the intelligence services within NATO 10 years ago. Today everyone but the most naive and stupid have figured out that an official story which requires gravity to make massive steel beams fall up does not hold water. Yes, official 9/11 government story can only be true if gravity sometimes makes things fall up. Feel free to keep calling people who understand this "crackpots", I'm fine with it. Most people have figured it out by now and I don't see much hope for those who still don't get it.

I first noticed that some subjects and opinions are silently removed from Slashdot back in 2004. Glad you're finally catching on. Using a site with a high number of visitors? Expect this sort of thing.

It's interesting how the "revelations" from "former" CIA employee and short-term NSA external contractor are so ground-breaking and not just what people who don't own a TV have known for years. Bread and circus, knew the Roman Empire, keep people from revolt. Snowden is a circus. Putin said it best when he pointed out that FSB had no interest in Snowden, it would be like trying to skin a pig: Lots of screams but no wool.

Yeah, I know this is too true information even for slashdot, I'm guessing this will be modded down.

You're missing this: If you have an old Windows XP system and a old graphics card and your harddrive breaks but you want to keep using it and your friend gives you a new harddrive then you'll need graphics drivers.. but they are gone from AMDs website and now you're screwed. You have to use the not-exactly-perfect free drivers for old cards in Linux since support is removed from AMDs proprietary driver and it's hard/impossible to get old versions of it.

Make sure you buy an older card. The free software driver driver for 7000+ cards is a broken joke. Works well for older cards, though. Evil proprietary drivers does sort-of work alright with newer cards but doesn't support older cards. Also know that you can't use 1 old and 1 new card since free driver only works with old cards and proprietary only new.

Google is more and more moving towards controlling everyone who uses their services. I used Adsense for years, but I started getting more and more junk mail from Adsense saying I had 3 days to change pages with "Adult" content. The last case was a poem from the 18th century with the word "Lover" in it. That made me drop Adsense. Google changing their Blogger policy should come as no surprise. They simply want everyone to use Adsense and they do not want other advertisements on Blogger - or elsewhere. Adsense users know that Google now considers using other advertisement networks or even other ads in some cases is "against their policy". Expect Google to try to dictate more and more, they want to control what ads you show, what words you use (the word "Lover" is now against their terms..) and what you write. Google isn't gradually becoming more and more evil, they have a long history of scamming people (search on bing other other search engines to find dozens and dozens of examples of people who've got their adsense account closed the day before payouts).

You may not have noticed, and may be in denial, but the relevant part for the United States today is âoeSomeone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize."