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        <title><![CDATA[The only difference is in the bookkeeping]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Otherwise, there is little difference.  Under fascism, you are given the impression that you &quot;own&quot; property and have property rights.  But if you are &quot;told&quot; what you can and cannot do with your property, then what good are property rights?  None, whatsoever.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:27:55 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Neither is using the Internet.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech is, but that doesn't mean the government or your ISP is required to allow you unrestricted access to an individual medium.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:30:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fascism and communism are similar in many ways because...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320055-3194348]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[... of merger of corporate and political power. Similar distribution of economical power leads to similar, more or less totalitarian political milieu with time. The fascist and communist ways to totalitarism are completely opposite. In socialism, politics takes over economy, state ownership, central planning, stuff like that. In fascism, it's the other way round- economy, megacorporations takes over politics. The final result, though, is the same- political and economic power are merged.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:10:11 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Funny, every facist and socialist/ communist government]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[to date has operated in the same way and the loss to the people has been the same way - oh well, a rose by any other name will stick prick your thumb.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:01:11 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is important difference]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In fascism, profits are private and individual, and loss is public and social. Only bankers and big business gets bailouts.In communism/socialism, both profits and loss is social. Everybody gets bailouts.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jkameleon@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:58:54 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Communist - Facist , no difference to the people at all -nt]]></title>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:57:46 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I Agree]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I totally agree - our freedoms are under attack with this administration, heck, even more so than the last administration.  I guess Pete was right . . . &quot;meet the new boss, same as the old boss&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[TheAlcatrazKid]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:41:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[...??]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nazi Germany was not a communist regime. It was a fashist one - there is a difference, you know.But I agree, don't give any government power over internet use, though clearly someone should put in place an emergency plan - there are too many daft people out there.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:53:40 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That was funny!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Paragraph 1 is a Bush hit about irresistible government expansion in the face of legal and popular barriers, and Paragraph 2 is an endorsement of government expansion in the name of, well, government expansion! &quot;The new Net Neutrality regulations now being discussed by the FCC  should  keep the Govt. as well as ISPs from regulating net traffic&quot; Our constitution  should  be preventing most of this, and yet that doesn't seem to be stopping anybody.  You have way to much faith in  &quot;should&quot;.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:05:05 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[they should not - but i am sure they will if they want to]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and there is not a damn thing we can do about it.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:50:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'd be surprised if they don't have a 'doctors only' site - nt]]></title>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:27:01 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Poll: Should the US Government block sites/regulate Internet traffic during times of crisis?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[this is a loaded question. governments should stop trying to think for and control their people. the restriction of information is not the way to solve any problem. to me it simply smacks of suppressing dissent of anything critical of governemnt/corporate behaviour.truly we need to stand up and make our voices heard or soon enough there will be only one voice and it will be our bloody rulers.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hypnowist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:20:20 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Allow gov't control in emergencies and you'll guarantee emergecies...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[History is replete with examples of this.  No government or people is immune from the 'true believer' who will use ANY tool to enforce their belief/system/philosophy - whatever - if they have the means to do so.  Give government a 'legal' tool for exercising power over the internet and you'll see the circumstances created to meet the rules set for use of the tool. And you thought the 'Patriot Act' was just temporary - good luck with that.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[john.parker@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:40:40 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Crash prevention]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sites like the CDC should already have measures in place for connection and/or traffic limiting or other traffic shaping tools in place to ensure that an overload condition will not crash their servers.  This is not extremely difficult to accomplish.As far as sites that spread misinformation, that would mean we need to get rid of almost all .gov sites, so the first problem may just disappear anyway.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Epper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:36:49 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Disaster Capitalism]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Don't forget it was the Bush Admin who started taking advantage of crisis to implement changes that would not be tolerated otherwise; ie, 9/11 leads to Homeland Security, War in Iraq, secret spying on Americans, etc. I'm disturbed that this Admin is continuing to take advantage of disasters but apparently the Genie is out of the bottle.I agree with the premise that having ANY Govt. picking data stream winners &amp; losers is a bad idea.The new Net Neutrality regulations now being discussed by the FCC should keep the Govt. as well as ISPs from regulating net traffic. Voice your opinions at http://www.openinternet.gov/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slang1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:20:27 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Poll: Should the US Government block sites/regulate Internet traffic du]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Amen.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[glorious@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:56:35 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Road paths are a fixed structure]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Road paths are a fixed structure electronic pathways are flexible. But another aside. How is a bunch of people at home sick any different than in the afternoons when the school kids jump online, or in the evenings, or on weekends, or holidays? This is just another excuse of this current government trying to rule your every movement.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:18:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The government needs to leave things alone.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Internet should not be another avenue of controlling the masses. I am sure that there are many politicians which would disagree with me, but they cannot be trusted as they are not transparent with many of their deeds.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tenebrulus]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:16:43 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Poll: Should the US Government block sites/regulate Internet traffic during times of crisis?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The government does a poor job of regulating anything as it is, why would we give them the power to regulate the internet? Also, please define &quot;times of crisis?&quot; Would that just be limited to pandemics? Or are we looking at say, the &quot;health care crisis&quot;. I really would hate to see govenment limit one's ability to discuss the healthcare bill via the internet because there are some people who do not agree with the president's ideas.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[glorious@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:05:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Keep the Damn Government out of the Internet!! Who is to say what person out there may be able to provide a solution to a situation that may benefit everyone. And who's to say if the Regime at the time of crisis has the only solution.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mauited2004@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:01:36 -0800</pubDate>
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