Post Tagged with: "Authoritarianism"

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  [Social Mood Watch] Authoritarianism Is No Laughing Matter, Well, Most of the Time

  Is the National Security Agency leveraging bogus cyberattack threats to further its agenda?
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] The Rise of Federal Police Power

  Federal cops and/or criminal investigators with full police power today work for the Peace Corps, the Government Printing Office, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. How did this happen?
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] A Big Chunk of the Web Goes Black: Is SOPA Dead?

  Internet-based opposition has turned the bill into a front-page conflict. The Obama administration announced its opposition to the legislation, and how it did so is especially noteworthy.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] How “Digital Piracy” Created a Consensus that STILL Reflects Negative Mood

  An apparent exception to gridlock has been much in the news lately. It has a bipartisan list of sponsors in Congress and near-unanimous support from America’s entertainment/industrial complex…
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] The Sort of Authoritarianism That’s “Easier to Disguise”

  If they ditch e-mail for more person-to-person communication, are we to believe that such chats won’t include last night’s poker game or next month’s wedding plans or who got drunk at the company’s Christmas party?
   
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  [Article] Democracy is Under Attack; Will it Survive the Social Mood Decline?

  Expressions of the large-degree negative social mood trend now seem to be accelerating.
   
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  [Article] Privacy Legislation is Curtailing Internet Use

  China already blocks Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — yet they’re taking further steps to ensure “a greater degree of comfort that everything is under control.” Discover what that means, in the context of new manifestations of Internet censorship in the U.S. and U.K.
   
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  [Article] ‘Financial Repression’ is Reemerging

  The potential for decentralized, uncontrollable information systems and economies represents a huge threat to governments. As the largest debt bubble in modern history unwinds, socionomists expect to see many and varied attempts to dial up the repression … and an intensification of the inevitable backlash.
   
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  [Article] WikiLeaks is on Trial

  On May 11, a federal grand jury in Virginia began hearing testimony against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for disclosing diplomatic and military secrets. Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists and a national security expert says the case is a part of a much broader crackdown by the Obama administration. He writes, “By every available measure, the level of domestic intelligence surveillance activity in 2010 increased from the year before, according to a new Justice Department report to Congress on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”
   
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  [Article] Authoritarianism vs. Anti-authoritarianism: Conflict Intensifies

  Discover how socionomics anticipated an increase in these anti-authoritarian rebellions around the globe.