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- Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/lavabit-snowden/ 88 comments
- US shuts once-secret Guantanamo prison unit, moves prisoners https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-shuts-once-secret-guantanamo-prison-unit-moves-prisoners/2021/04/04/155636c6-9574-11eb-8f0a-3384cf4fb399_story.html 545 comments politics
- In Secret-Ballot Vote, House Democrats Overwhelmingly Deny AOC a Powerful Committee Seat | "It is very clear the party leadership is working to shut out progressives and has no intention of working with the left to 'build back better.'" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/18/secret-ballot-vote-house-democrats-overwhelmingly-deny-aoc-powerful-committee-seat 583 comments politics
- Germany Pressures China to Shut Secret Police Outposts in Berlin https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-15/germany-pressures-china-to-shut-secret-police-outposts-in-berlin 104 comments europe
- Brian Gewirtz (reacting to a potential Summerslam match rumor): Zero idea if this is true or not but in general if you’re a part of a wrestling organization and you’re secretly spilling info under the table, can you maybe, I don’t know, take some pride in your work and shut the fuck up? https://twitter.com/bfg728/status/1634318131437993984 63 comments squaredcircle
- Turning Point spam network shut down by Facebook, Twitter — The conservative organization is accused of secretly paying teenagers to spread pro-Trump content. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/turning-point-spam-network/ 161 comments politics
- Iran has shut down a newspaper after it published comments by an expert challenging the government’s official figures for coronavirus cases and deaths in the country. Epidemiologist claims officials kept virus data secret for ‘political and security reasons’. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-cases-newspaper-jahane-sanat-newspaper-shut-a9663456.html 3 comments worldnews
- Russian Authorities 'Secretly' Shut Down Moscow's Mobile Internet: Report https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/08/russian-security-agencies-secretly-shut-moscows-mobile-internet-to-control-protestors-report/ 3 comments europe
- Russia 'secretly' shuts down mobile Internet to frustrate Moscow protesters: report. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/08/russian-security-agencies-secretly-shut-moscows-mobile-internet-to-control-protestors-report/ 834 comments technology
- 'Put up or shut up': Mississippi teachers mull strike in wake of 'insulting' pay raise, secretive voucher funding move https://mississippitoday.org/2019/04/03/put-up-or-shut-up-mississippi-teachers-mull-strike-in-wake-of-insulting-pay-raise-secretive-voucher-funding-move/ 7 comments politics
- Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams From Secret China Project https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/google-china-censored-search/ 6 comments technology
- Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams From Secret China Project https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/google-china-censored-search/ 23 comments worldnews
- Authorities shut down secret Islamic school in Brussels: report http://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-radicalization-authorities-shut-down-secret-islamic-school-in-molenbeek-report-islam-education/ 37 comments europe
- Secret, The $100 Million Social App, Shuts Down http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2015/04/29/secret-the-100-million-social-app-shuts-down/ 3 comments worldnews
- Secret shutting down for good https://medium.com/secret-den/sunset-bc18450478d5 4 comments technology
- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged North Korea Tuesday to close its secret prison camps: "You should shut this evil system down." http://www.upi.com/top_news/world-news/2014/09/23/kerry-calls-on-north-korea-to-shut-prison-camps/8181411498869/ 130 comments worldnews
- Open source project developer attempts a shut down, only to find out the project was secretly purchased years ago. Hundreds of programmers have therefore been contributing to the project as virtual free labor. So one of them files a DMCA take down notice. Welcome to the Minecraft Bukkit drama. http://www.gamepolitics.com/2014/09/05/mod-turns-latest-ongoing-minecraft-bukkit-saga#.vap8ffm0cx8 12 comments programming
- Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email 5 comments business
- Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email 1510 comments technology
- Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email 32 comments politics
- Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email 9 comments technews
- Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email 19 comments privacy
- Federal Judge Shuts Down Secret Investigation Of Scott Walker Recall http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/judge-shuts-down-wisconsin-john-doe 11 comments politics
- The secret anti-abortion law that's sweeping America | Pro-lifers can't reverse Roe v Wade. So they're shutting down clinics with red tape and a smile. Don't believe the lie. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/abortion-law-sweeping-america-red-tape 1869 comments politics
- The Government's Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained http://billmoyers.com/2013/11/27/the-governments-secret-plan-to-shut-off-cellphones-and-the-internet-explained/ 30 comments politics
- Mayor Bloomberg is taking his most trusted NYPD bodyguards with him to the private sector next year — to ensure they don’t spill any of his secrets, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The 7th richest man in America "gives them plum jobs to keep their mouths shut.” http://nypost.com/2013/11/07/bloomberg-giving-nypd-bodyguards-jobs-to-keep-their-mouths-shut/ 341 comments politics
- Edward Snowden's Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/lavabit-snowden/ 15 comments business
- World’s newest superhero Burka Avenger fights for Pakistani girls’ education. Meet Burka Avenger: a mild-mannered teacher with secret martial arts skills who uses a flowing black burka to hide her identity as she fights local thugs seeking to shut down the girls’ school where she works. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/ap-exclusive-worlds-newest-superhero-burka-avenger-fights-for-pakistani-girls-education/2013/07/24/50eb9632-f472-11e2-81fa-8e83b3864c36_story.html 4 comments worldnews
- 'A concentration camp for little boys': Dark secrets unearthed in KKK county. Excavators discover 50 bodies buried in the grounds of a boys' borstal, which was only shut in 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-concentration-camp-for-little-boys-dark-secrets-unearthed-in-kkk-county-8518009.html 248 comments politics
- As Obama, Romney Hold First Debate, Behind the Secret GOP-Dem Effort to Shut Out Third Parties. http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/3/ahead_of_first_obama_romney_debate 27 comments politics
- Everyone admits that the U.S. abducted an innocent person and sent him to Syria to be tortured, but U.S. federal judges shut the courthouse door in his face, accepting claims that to allow the victim to obtain justice for what was done to him would be to risk the disclosure of vital “state secrets.” http://www.salon.com/2012/04/23/federal_judge_complicity/singleton/?miaou 71 comments politics
- Ex-CIA Agent Wants Obama To Murder Julian Assange - No nation can operate without secrets. Unless we adopt an aggressive plan, adopt new tough laws and take immediate action -- overt and covert -- we face disaster. Our president...must do whatever it takes to shut down WikiLeaks. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/22/1984472/a-deadly-menace-to-all-of-us.html 5 comments politics
- The Secret Behind the Travel Mayhem - Why is five inches of snow shutting down London’s Heathrow airport? Because it’s more concerned with being a mall than plowing runways. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-21/heathrow-airport-shutdown-whats-the-real-cause/?cid=hp:mainpromo2 20 comments worldnews
- Eyes Wide Shut - In Japan details are leaking out of a large secret fund kept in a black box near the prime minister’s office that for decades. Tellingly, the Japanese media is reacting to the scandal like the three wise monkeys of Nikko: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan?source=features_box1 4 comments worldnews
- Honduras: State henchmen shot owner of Radio Globo – one of few media outlets to speak out against coup. Radio Globo had resorted almost exclusively to broadcasting online from secret locations. Canal 36, shut down altogether after equipment destroyed, signals interrupted, editors assassinated. http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/290.php 7 comments worldnews
- State Terrorists' dilemma, the woman is a Mossad agent accompanied by a guard assigned, not for her safety but to keep her mouth shut on horrific state secrets http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-3822381,00.html 31 comments worldnews
- CIA shuts down its secret prisons http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7993087.stm 7 comments politics
- People For The New American Century (NEOCONS) Website Is Shut Down. Did They Achieve Their Goal Or Are They Keepin More Secrets To Themselves? http://www.israelenews.com/view.asp?id=2160 6 comments politics
- Powerful Philippine sect shuts down Manila. More than 1.5 million people from a secretive and politically influential religious sect forced all schools and some government offices to close. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/131014/powerful-philippine-sect-shuts-down-manila-0 4 comments worldnews
- Cheney wants National Security Dept shut down because they asked about his security secrets http://polidics.com/ethics/cheney-shuts-down-national-security-dept-because-they-asked-about-his-security-secrets 2 comments reddit.com