Comments on: Research on Jihadists in Virtual Worlds Finds Minimal Current Use, Exploration Likely Over Next Two Years http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/05/05/jihadists-virtual-worlds/ Legal Issues That Impact Virtual Worlds Tue, 13 May 2014 04:03:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: MixedRealities :: Defence/intelligence communities support disruptive technologies http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/05/05/jihadists-virtual-worlds/#comment-16868 MixedRealities :: Defence/intelligence communities support disruptive technologies Tue, 06 May 2008 19:54:16 +0000 http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/05/05/jihadists-virtual-worlds/#comment-16868 [...] raised concerns about this during a hearing in Congress about virtual worlds. In a recent post on Virtually Blind research was discussed showing that Jihadist use of Virtual Worlds is currently minimal but that [...] [...] raised concerns about this during a hearing in Congress about virtual worlds. In a recent post on Virtually Blind research was discussed showing that Jihadist use of Virtual Worlds is currently minimal but that [...]

]]> By: Pedro Ivo Rogedo http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/05/05/jihadists-virtual-worlds/#comment-16848 Pedro Ivo Rogedo Tue, 06 May 2008 02:13:05 +0000 http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/05/05/jihadists-virtual-worlds/#comment-16848 Barlow was right when he wrote the Declaration of Independence of the Cyberspace. "You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different." These countermeasures will certainly be between surveillance and protection. And, for sure, it will serve not only to protect people from terrorists but to ensure that the government has control over every kind of human communication - even if it's not related to any act of terrorism. Barlow was right when he wrote the Declaration of Independence of the Cyberspace.

“You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don’t exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.”

These countermeasures will certainly be between surveillance and protection. And, for sure, it will serve not only to protect people from terrorists but to ensure that the government has control over every kind of human communication – even if it’s not related to any act of terrorism.

]]> By: Kris Wheaton http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/05/05/jihadists-virtual-worlds/#comment-16847 Kris Wheaton Tue, 06 May 2008 01:34:46 +0000 http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/05/05/jihadists-virtual-worlds/#comment-16847 Interesting blog and thanks for posting about my students' work. I don't think that any of the students, by the way, expected to find what they found. If we had any biases going in, I think it was probably in the opposite direction, which, to my mind, makes the findings even more interesting. Kris Interesting blog and thanks for posting about my students’ work.

I don’t think that any of the students, by the way, expected to find what they found. If we had any biases going in, I think it was probably in the opposite direction, which, to my mind, makes the findings even more interesting.

Kris

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