This is the effect of the institutional exploitation of the internet, of corporate algorithms that thrive on controversy and division: the degradation of the soul as a source of profit.
The US government unilaterally censoring websites on a global scale based on vague “disinformation” claims. Glad we can be assured this power definitely won’t be abused or copied, or backfire
Children are wonderful. I can lazily waggle my fingers, and my son is dripping with smiles, totally enraptured by the unlimited possibility of being.
Adults watch world-champion gymnastics and are like, "Didn't exactly nail that landing, did she?"
Because everything with McAfee is complicated, it turns out he was still born American after all -- he was merely born outside the United States. I regret regretting the error.
Europe should not extradite those accused of non-violent crimes to a court system so unfair—and prison system so cruel—that native-born defendants would rather die than become subject to it. Julian Assange could be next.
Until the system is reformed, a moratorium should remain.
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Peter McCormack
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*Breaking*
John McAfee found dead in his prison cell, this after Spanish courts agreed to extradite him.
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This is hugely significant for young people across the country.
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ACLU
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upheld 50 million young people’s free speech rights today in an important decision that reaffirmed that students outside school retain the right to express themselves freely.
For fear of intolerance, many of today's best minds in so-called free, democratic states have stopped trying to say what they think and feel and have fallen silent.
is quoting one of my favorite Serbian writers Danilo Kiš here and his views on censorship.
So many parallels as to what is happening with the growing trend of censorship in the world today.
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Edward Snowden
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This is the effect of the institutional exploitation of the internet, of corporate algorithms that thrive on controversy and division: the degradation of the soul as a source of profit. https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/on-censorship-pt-1…
on how democratic societies have perfected weapons of censorship far more effective than imprisoning dissidents: an endless array of societal structures and incentives for rewarding obedience and punishing dissent:
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Edward Snowden
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The more censorship happens at this level, the more its very existence is hidden from the public.
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/on-censorship-pt-1…
Edward Snowden: 'The depredations of surveillance have become more entrenched, with the capabilities that used to be the province of governments now in the hands of private companies, too, which employ them to track, tether us and attenuate our freedoms.'
One history of the Internet is the history of the individual's disempowerment, as governments and businesses both sought to monitor and profit from what had fundamentally been a user-to-user or peer-to-peer relationship. (Read the rest here: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-mask…)
"I wanted PGP to be used for human rights applications—to spread all over the world, especially to places where people needed protection from their own governments. But I couldn't say that out loud, because it would help the prosecutor prove intent." https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/PGP_30th/…
substack connecting the dots between ubiquitous digital surveillance and our increasingly maddening culture wars is exactly what we need right now. Excited to see where this goes.
In a quick look back over 30 years of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), its creator, Phil Zimmermann, says "the need for protecting our right to a private conversation has never been stronger. " We agree.
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Edward Snowden
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"I wanted PGP to be used for human rights applications—to spread all over the world, especially to places where people needed protection from their own governments. But I couldn't say that out loud, because it would help the prosecutor prove intent." https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/PGP_30th/…
"...young people are terrified to tweet. The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene."
50 years ago today, the New York Times published its first story about the Pentagon Papers, exposing the truth about the war in Vietnam. In this podcast from
"I wanted PGP to be used for human rights applications—to spread all over the world, especially to places where people needed protection from their own governments. But I couldn't say that out loud, because it would help the prosecutor prove intent." https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/PGP_30th/…