personal life persecution begets riots and resistance
In any country with a significant secular population, regardless of the state religion, busting down doors with arrest warrants for "sodomy," "porn," "prostitution," etc can lead to violent, even armed resistance. In the US, the Gay community celebrates Pride in June, remembering the Stonewall Riots of 1969. On June 28, 1969, the NY vice squad, the ATF, and eventually the riot squad attempted to raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich village. All were defeated as a huge crowd poured into the streets and resisted them with overwhelming force. Eventually the pigs barricaded themselves inside the emptied bar, only to have the door smashed down with an uprooted parking meter used as a battering ram. The pigs drew their guns in response to lighter fluid and a tossed match (that missed), and bought enough time to be rescued by a riot squad unit that simply picked them up and ran. The next two nights saw more fighting with draq queens and hustlers clearly dominant over the cops.
Now, about the Muslim countries: I can promise you the Christian Taliban's interest in the Middle East is based on Crusade and on oil, not on freedom they don't want here either. Why else have religious laws about sex and women's rights in Afghanistan changed so little under a decade of US occupation? So long as those laws do exist, one of the goals of both free software and Internet security tools like Tor should be to protect people from the religious police and help people defy oppressive regime. Example: the Tor project puts a lot of energy into helping their Persian users resist censorship and policing in Iran. Tor is very popular in Iran, showing public contempt for a fundamentalist government.
Thanks for reminding everyone here that just because you don't fight against tar sands or gas fracking does not mean the NSA does not want your webcam take! Hell, state and local police in places like the US "Bible Belt" probably want it even more than the NSA does. In those places, I advise the use of Tor for online cruising and making sure you can defend yourself against any surprises.
Originally posted by zester
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Now, about the Muslim countries: I can promise you the Christian Taliban's interest in the Middle East is based on Crusade and on oil, not on freedom they don't want here either. Why else have religious laws about sex and women's rights in Afghanistan changed so little under a decade of US occupation? So long as those laws do exist, one of the goals of both free software and Internet security tools like Tor should be to protect people from the religious police and help people defy oppressive regime. Example: the Tor project puts a lot of energy into helping their Persian users resist censorship and policing in Iran. Tor is very popular in Iran, showing public contempt for a fundamentalist government.
Thanks for reminding everyone here that just because you don't fight against tar sands or gas fracking does not mean the NSA does not want your webcam take! Hell, state and local police in places like the US "Bible Belt" probably want it even more than the NSA does. In those places, I advise the use of Tor for online cruising and making sure you can defend yourself against any surprises.
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