Slashdot receives about 5.5 million visitors per month<ref>http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,,1843366,00.html</ref>, and a resultant phenomenon often associated with Slashdot is the "Slashdot effect", which is, essentially, a huge [[traffic (Internet)|traffic spike]] resulting from a website being featured in a Slashdot article, and the subsequent direction of large numbers of people to the website. This has been known to result in diminished website performance, or even loss of service. A website which has experienced such failure due to the Slashdot effect is said to have been "Slashdotted".
==External linksPrescient Quotes on Police State Internet Surveillance==* "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]]?"** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
==See Also==*[http[Duck Duck Go]] - [[Privacy]]-oriented [[Search engine]]* [[Google]], [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing]]----* [[Censorship]]* [[Tools of censorship]]* [[Censorability]]* [[Fairness Doctrine]]* [[Liberal censorship]]* [[Evolutionist censorship]]* [[Media censorship]]----* The Perpetual [[War on Drugs]], [[War on Terror]] and the [[Police state]]* [[Wikileaks]] and [[Julian Assange]] - [[Australia]]n [[leftist]] [[hacker]]* [[Bradley Manning]] - [[Homosexual]] [[Hacker]] [[Traitor]] of [[State secret]]s* [[Social media]]://slashdotFacebook, Twitter, [[Google Plus]], Youtube, [[Yahoo]]* [[NSA]] and other [[Intelligence agency]] [[mass surveillance]]: [[PRISM]], [[Wiretap]] - [[Roving wiretap]]* [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] of the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]]* [[Police]], [[RICO]] and [[Asset forfeiture]]* [[Mililtarization of police]]: [[SWAT]] and [[No-knock raid]]s* [[Drug trafficking]] of the [[Drug cartel]]s, [[Gangs]], [[Drug dealer]]s, [[Hollywood values]] - [[Fashion industry values]] - [[Public school values]] - [[Professor values]]* [[Big government]] [[ObamaCare]]-[[Common Core]]-[[Social Security]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[Nanny state]], leads to [[Police state]]: [[Globalist]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[National Socialist]]-[[Communist]]* [[Liberal totalitarianism]] '''Contrast with:''' * [[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. ยง 3331|all enemies, foreign and domestic]]" of [[American values|American]] [[liberty]].* [[Encryption]]: [[Cryptography]]-[[Cryptanalysis]]-[[Cryptology]]-[[Data encryption]]-[[Public-key encryption]]-[[Steganography]]* [[Conservative values]] and [[Libertarian]] [[American values]] - [[Small town values]] of [[Limited government]] and [[liberty]]* [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]* [[Prism-break.org Slashdot]] - 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>* [[Open source]] [[Free software]] not [[Microsoft]]-[[Apple]]-[[Google]]-[[Android]]* [[Duck Duck Go]] [[search engine]] instead of [[Google]], [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing]]* [[Hologram of Liberty - The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government]] by [[Boston T. Party]] - [[Kenneth W. Royce]]* [[One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye]] by [[Boston T. Party]]* [[Electronic Communications Privacy Act]] of 1986 * [[Privacy Act of 1974]]* [[Edward J. Snowden]] revelations of [[unconstitutional]] domestic spying on law-abiding [[American]] [[citizen]]s
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