Posts by saline_solution

Assange psychiatrist misled judge over parentage of his kids, US tells High Court

Re: Independent, informed comment

You didn't actually read the linked article before commenting, did you?

Re: How about ...

Can you present some evidence that anyone has been executed by the Taliban because of Wikileaks work?

Re: How about ...

So, Manning gets dobbed in by Lamo and goes to jail.

What did you expect Assange to do at this point? Break her out?

According to Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Assange's lawyers "made over 30 offers to arrange for Assange to visit Sweden – in exchange for a guarantee that he would not be extradited to the U.S. The Swedes declined to provide such a guarantee by arguing that the U.S. had not made a formal request for extradition... Such diplomatic assurances are a routine international practice."

https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

Re: Independent, informed comment

Perhaps Assange's lawyers asked Melzer to investigate because they were confident that his treatment by the US and UK governments fits the definition of psychological torture.

Independent, informed comment

Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, gives a very different picture of the Assange affair than you would read in the newspapers. But then he did actually investigate the matter, rather than simply regurgitating the government line.

https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

Re: BBC

https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/11/bbc-shows-three-year-old-clip-boris-johnson-instead-wreath-laying-blunder-11078714/

To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever

Re: The ball is at the lawmakers

Absolutely. It is up to governments to legislate and break up these monopolies.

However, trillion dollar corporations can (and do) buy government policy.

Therefore, it is up to civil society to force governments to do the right thing.

Re: How to destroy surveillance capitalism

Counsel of despair.

Sure, Facebook knows a lot. It has a lot of power and like any power structure it will resist efforts to curtail its power.

No one said it would be easy but that's politics for you.

Re: How to destroy surveillance capitalism

Is there any evidence that they have figured out a way to prevent or bypass acclimation?

Regardless, Doctorow's recommendation that we break up these monopolies would still go a long way toward curbing their power and their anti-competitive business practices.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

How to destroy surveillance capitalism

https://popularresistance.org/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism/