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ADL Director Pledges to Sign Up For Muslim Registry

ADL Director Pledges to Sign Up For Muslim Registry

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ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt pledged today that he would sign himself up for a registry of foreign-born Muslims.

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NSA monitored visits of “Radicalizers” to Chat Rooms, Skin Sites to Discredit Them

NSA monitored visits of “Radicalizers” to Chat Rooms, Skin Sites to Discredit Them

Juan Cole

Six persons living abroad, one of them a “US person,” were targeted by the National Security Agency for discrediting, according to information leaked by Edward Snowden and reported on by Glenn Greenwald and two colleagues at HuffPo. The NSA branded the six Muslims “radicalizers” even though it did not tie them to terrorist activity. Their […]

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Tim Berners-Lee Warns "Tide of Surveillance and Censorship" threatens Democracy

Tim Berners-Lee Warns “Tide of Surveillance and Censorship” threatens Democracy

Juan Cole

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1990, is disturbed at the revelations of the degree of surveillance pursued by governments of ordinary people and warns that it could harm the functioning of his baby. He warned yesterday that “a growing tide of surveillance and censorship” . His Web index ranks countries for […]

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