RE: News: Saudi Religious police to have less power
October 4, 2012 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2012 at 4:08 pm by Doubting_Thomas.)
(October 4, 2012 at 2:30 am)cratehorus Wrote: The worst internet offender in the world according to the UN is Iran, North Korea doesn't even make the list,That'd be because the internet is generally unavailable in north Korea, especially to normal people, and many north Koreans haven't even heard of it. North Korea has it's own national intranet and most of it's true internet sites, basically propaganda sites, are hosted overseas. Although many would argue that North Korea is atheist in the mono-theist sense, it's a nationalist* dead-leader cult with strong parallels to theocratic rule.
* You see it labelled "Stalinist" a lot but this is a weak description; national-socialist in the descriptive sense would be a better fit if it wasn't for that term being inextricably linked to Nazism, which they are not. Also, unlike Nazism their main 'enemy' is external, although they do not tolerate free thinking internally. As Hitchen's classically said, at least you can die and leave North Korea.
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