NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged

This is disgusting. Is this the start of a war between 'the normals' and 'the weirdos'? On the basis of what I know of people who work at GCHQ, they'd like nothing more than to launch a tactical carpet bombing of 'those alternative hippy people who think their Linux thing is so great' ..

I mean, seriously. Is it really coming to this, NSA/GCHQ apologists? You really think the fascist security apparatus is so great? They're targetting people who commit nothing more than highly advanced, technical, free speech. Is this not shocking as hell? How anyone can continue to defend this apparatus is beyond me ..

Seriously, it's time for the entire tech industry to publicly announce an embargo for everyone who has worked in the NSA from 2015-01-01 onwards.

This gives those who want to get out a fair opportunity to do so, and those who still are in after the date... well fuck you very much.

Is it possible that LJ used to host tails ISO images or tor bundles under linuxjournal.com/content/linux ? The original article doesn't provide much more than a single source page with very little context. The whole source page is about flagging tor users.

@DINKDINK: I like to understand the context in which LJ got flagged that's all. My understanding is that a NSA agent would find a "tor" tag associated to my IP which would help them look for communication channels in case they wanted to investigate me. I also didn't see anything flagging me as an "extremist" like the news reports.

So if the NSA is the new McCarthyism, does that make Linux the new Communism?

Great, so by clicking that link, I'm flagged. If I wasn't already.

May NSA should be flagged as extremist as well?