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| − | '''Bulletin Board System''' (also known as '''BBS''') is most commonly used when referring to Citadels but can refer to any message board. | + | '''Bulletin Board System''' (also known as '''BBS''') is a message board system that can be accessed by dial-up phone lines or by the internet. These systems grew in popularity in the mid-1980s as more home computer users purchased modems for telecommunications. |
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| | The BBS, from the user's perspective, is segmented into "rooms", each of which is dedicated to a topic. Within each room are a series of posts, marked with date-time stamp from individual users. The user reads all the posts, posts his/her own reply or message, and moves onto the next room. | | The BBS, from the user's perspective, is segmented into "rooms", each of which is dedicated to a topic. Within each room are a series of posts, marked with date-time stamp from individual users. The user reads all the posts, posts his/her own reply or message, and moves onto the next room. |
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| | In this manner the message board emulates a "bulletin board", such as roommates in a large house might use to communicate with each other. Entirely text-based (at least in dial-up format), the BBS was the primitive forerunner to the modern thread-based [[forum]]. | | In this manner the message board emulates a "bulletin board", such as roommates in a large house might use to communicate with each other. Entirely text-based (at least in dial-up format), the BBS was the primitive forerunner to the modern thread-based [[forum]]. |
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| − | ==Prescient Quotes on Police State Bulletin Board Surveillance==
| + | These features were first offered on main frame computers, with users accessing them through "dumb terminals" instead of personal computers. Mainframe users could leave messages for each other in a designated area with the messages retained on the mainframe disk drives for others to read. Commercial systems, expressly intended to offer these features to the public, became available in the late 1970s and formed the online service market that lasted into the 1990s. One particularly influential example was [[PLATO]], which had thousands of interconnected users around the world by the late 1970s, many of whom used the messaging and chat features of the system in the same way that would become common on BBSs. |
| − | * "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with [[wiretap]]ping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|government]], without removing papers from [[hard disk|secret drawers]], can reproduce them in [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|court]], and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the [[computer science|psychic and related sciences]] may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every [[citizen|man]] in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser [[tyranny|intrusions]] than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no [[Right to Privacy|protection]] against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"
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| − | ** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
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| − | ==See Also== | + | Citadels and Red Rover were two popular systems for personal computers. "The Well" was a famous bulletin board system because it established a noted online community. |
| − | * [[Duck Duck Go]] - [[Privacy]]-oriented [[Search engine]] | + | ==External links== |
| − | * [[Google]], [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing]]
| + | *[http://thebbs.org/ The BBS organization (longest running bbs services site)] |
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| + | *[http://textfiles.com/ Textfiles.com] - Collection of historical BBS documents, files and history |
| − | * [[Censorship]]
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| − | * [[Tools of censorship]]
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| − | * [[Censorability]]
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| − | * [[Fairness Doctrine]]
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| − | * [[Liberal censorship]]
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| − | * [[Evolutionist censorship]]
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| − | * [[Media censorship]]
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| − | * The Perpetual [[War on Drugs]], [[War on Terror]] and the [[Police state]]
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| − | * [[Wikileaks]] and [[Julian Assange]] - [[Australia]]n [[leftist]] [[hacker]]
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| − | * [[Bradley Manning]] - [[Homosexual]] [[Hacker]] [[Traitor]] of [[State secret]]s
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| − | * [[Social media]]: Facebook, Twitter, [[Google Plus]], Youtube, [[Yahoo]]
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| − | * [[NSA]] and other [[Intelligence agency]] [[mass surveillance]]: [[PRISM]], [[Wiretap]] - [[Roving wiretap]]
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| − | * [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]]
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| − | * [[Police]], [[RICO]] and [[Asset forfeiture]]
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| − | * [[Mililtarization of police]]: [[SWAT]] and [[No-knock raid]]s
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| − | * [[Drug trafficking]] of the [[Drug cartel]]s, [[Gangs]], [[Drug dealer]]s, [[Hollywood values]] - [[Fashion industry values]] - [[Public school values]] - [[Professor values]]
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| − | * [[Big government]] [[ObamaCare]]-[[Common Core]]-[[Social Security]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[Nanny state]], leads to [[Police state]]: [[Globalist]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[National Socialist]]-[[Communist]]
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| − | * [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
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| − | '''Contrast with:'''
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| − | * [[Tails (operating system)]] ([[Linux]]-based) and [[Tor (anonymity network)]]-[[I2P]] [[Firefox]] [[browser]] [[HTTPS Everywhere]] [[encryption]] for [[Internet]] [[anonymity]] to protect [[unalienable rights|unalienable]] [[Fifth Amendment]] - [[Fourth Amendment]] [[Right to Privacy]] ([[Internet privacy]]) and [[Second Amendment]] - [[First Amendment]] rights against [[unconstitutional]] [[Gun control]] - [[Internet censorship]] [[Big government]] [[Police state]], [[hackers]], and "[[5 U.S.C. § 3331|all enemies, foreign and domestic]]" of [[American values|American]] [[liberty]].
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| − | * [[Encryption]]: [[Cryptography]]-[[Cryptanalysis]]-[[Cryptology]]-[[Data encryption]]-[[Public-key encryption]]-[[Steganography]] | |
| − | * [[Conservative values]] and [[Libertarian]] [[American values]] - [[Small town values]] of [[Limited government]] and [[liberty]]
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| − | * [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]
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| − | * [[Prism-break.org]] - Opt out of global data [[surveillance]] programs like [[PRISM]], [[XKeyscore]] and [[Tempora]].<ref>"Help make [[mass surveillance]] of entire populations uneconomical! We all have an [[unalienable right]] to [[privacy]], which you can exercise today by [[encrypting]] your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary products and services."</ref>
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| − | * [[Open source]] [[Free software]] not [[Microsoft]]-[[Apple]]-[[Google]]-[[Android]]
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| − | * [[Duck Duck Go]] [[search engine]] instead of [[Google]], [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing]]
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| − | * [[Hologram of Liberty - The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government]] by [[Boston T. Party]] - [[Kenneth W. Royce]]
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| − | * [[One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye]] by [[Boston T. Party]]
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| − | * [[Electronic Communications Privacy Act]] of 1986
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| − | * [[Privacy Act of 1974]]
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| − | * [[Edward J. Snowden]] revelations of [[unconstitutional]] domestic spying on law-abiding [[American]] [[citizen]]s
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| − | ==References==
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