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Censorship

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A Country Not Salvageable
Nor, Many Say Quietly, Worth Saving
• June 24, 2020
• 1,900 Words • 590 Comments • Reply
What fun, what entertainment. And rare: One seldom sees the collapse of a landmark society in a rush of wondrous idiocy. Would I could sell tickets. Don’t look at it as a loss, but as a show, an unwanted but grand amusement. The coup de grace in our ripening decadence is the current uprising purportedly,... Read More
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Decline in the Fall (Or Late Summer, Anyway)
by Fred Gibbon
• August 15, 2018
• 1,600 Words • 320 Comments • Reply
I am not sure why people write columns. Partly from boredom, I suppose, or lack of anything better to do. Partly from exasperation. Yet partly from the hope that if enough people collectively become aware of problems, they might, just maybe, do something about them. I can’t believe this any longer. Today’s crimes, lunacies, and... Read More
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Kidporn, and a Suggestion
For Which I Will Probably Be Lynched
• November 9, 2017
• 1,100 Words • 193 Comments • Reply
The other night we watched a documentary, The Dark Net, on Netflix on child pornography. Dim as I am, I didn’t realize that there was such a huge amount of it, mostly on the Darknet. This refers to transmission of material by layered encryption and quickly becomes technical: TOR, asymmetric encryption, IP packets, session keys,... Read More
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Googled, Gobbled, and Throttled
The Road to Samizdat
• July 16, 2015
• 1,300 Words • 61 Comments • Reply
Cometh the censor. Sort of. My site, Fredoneverythig.org, has, or had until a few minutes ago, several Google ads, which served to bring in a modest amount of money, perhaps $200 a month. Many sites carry Google ads to make beer change, and some depend on them. Recently (so far as I now) Google has... Read More
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Fred Reed
About Fred Reed

Fred, a keyboard mercenary with a disorganized past, has worked on staff for Army Times, The Washingtonian, Soldier of Fortune, Federal Computer Week, and The Washington Times.

He has been published in Playboy, Soldier of Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harper's, National Review, Signal, Air&Space, and suchlike. He has worked as a police writer, technology editor, military specialist, and authority on mercenary soldiers.


Personal Classics
YouSSR, MeSSR
Not What Tom Jefferson Had in Mind
• 6 Comments • Reply
Up Periscope
Quick and Dirty
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Eighth Grade In Mexico
Sounds Like A Low-Ranked American University To Me
• 8 Comments • Reply
Fredwin On Evolution
Very Long, Will Bore Hell Out Of Most People, But I Felt Like Doing It
• 11 Comments • Reply
Ilsa Koch Gets Kotched
It's Not A Job. It's An Adventure.
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Weather Report
Cloudy, With Possible Tidal Wave
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