Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them
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#2Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
Re: Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them
#3Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
Cory Doctorow has quite the charisma - I love his speech at last year's Chaos Computer Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
Don't really like his novels (subtlety is French to them) but his speeches are great.
Re: Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them
#4Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
Because political activism on an issue that's not obvious injustice is a quixotic, and the smart people are out building new things/finding ways to route around the problem rather than fighting a losing battle.
Re: Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them
#5Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
From what is publicly known, there's very little reason to believe Assange raped anyone and the Swedish authorities seem uninterested in questioning Assange, filing charges, or anything besides extraditing him to Sweden for some reason.
I don't really want to talk about the details and hijack the thread, but there's something Kafkaesque about how thing shave been handled. The terrifying thing about the case is people are ready to hate him because of flimsy rape allegations, even on Hacker News!
Anyway, I guess the point of this post is Assange isn't all that obnoxious if you ignore the rape media circus. Maybe he is egotistical but most important hackers are.
Re: Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them
#6Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
Because political activism on an issue that's not obvious injustice is a quixotic, and the smart people are out building new things/finding ways to route around the problem rather than fighting a losing battle.
While it may not be universally true, I quite like this.
Any insight on how one might route around the upcoming internet control battle that will take place in the UN? Or the neverending stream of [RI|MP]AA-written laws that congress tries to pass?
Re: Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them
#7Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
Well-adjusted individuals who do well within the system have little reason to fight it.
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#8Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
From what is publicly known, there's very little reason to believe Assange raped anyone and the Swedish authorities seem uninterested in questioning Assange, filing charges, or anything besides extraditing him to Sweden for some reason. I don't really want to talk about the details and hijack the thread, but there's something Kafkaesque about how thing shave been handled. The terrifying thing about the case is people…
To quote Shakespeare "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Fighting extradition was one thing, but asylum from Ecuador has me fairly convinced there is more to the change than I originally thought.
Re: Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what is publicly known, there's very little reason to believe Assange raped anyone and the Swedish authorities seem uninterested in questioning Assange, filing charges, or anything besides extraditing him to Sweden for some reason. I don't really want to talk about the details and hijack the thread, but there's something Kafkaesque about how thing shave been handled. The terrifying thing about the case is people…
To quote Shakespeare "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Fighting extradition was one thing, but asylum from Ecuador has me fairly convinced there is more to the change than I originally thought.
And 24-hour Met stakeout outside the embassy, cost running into the millions, is standard for an arrest warrant?
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#10Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
I think part of the problem is that many of them just get more headlines as a result of their weirdness. There are plenty of people fighting these fights without being insane, Schneier for one.
http://www.schneier.com/
You just don't hear him being accused of raping anyone, that's all.