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Internet Addiction Is About to Be Classified as a Mental Illness

Written by Gary North on October 2, 2012

If you spend too much time on the Internet, you may be suffering from a mental illness. Are you on-line 5 hours a day? You’re sick. The affliction is called Internet-use disorder.” If you watch TV 5 hours a day, you’re normal. What’s the difference? TV is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. The rule […]

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FBI Snooping Plan: Backdoor into Facebook, Google, and Yahoo

Written by Gary North on May 7, 2012

The FBI insists that it needs trapdoors to get into all social media sites. The goal, we are told, is to track terrorists. The current law allows this for all telecommunications carriers. But it does not apply to the Internet. The FBI want to close this loophole. The problem, the FBI says, is that it […]

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