[digi_owl]

Talking about the great firewall, didn't Bono of all people praise it as a demonstration that filtering the net was possible? His statement was in the context of unlicensed copying (aka piracy).

And frankly if they want to deal with the rise of nationalism, they need to have a long hard look at the financial market and their destructive behavior.

What is needed is for the big finance houses to fall, and for the Euro zone to drop the whole austerity insanity.

Until then the left have no proper counterpoint to the rising nationalism, as said nationalism is largely feeding off anti-austerity, and thus anti-EU, opinions.