I can't decide if this is happy or sad. On the one hand, it's great that a country that was once dominated by a totalitarian regime is a hub of new ideas about freedom of information and what government responsibility really means. On the other hand, it's really sad that one of the countries who fought so hard against that totalitarianism is no longer considered safe for these people. If we weren't fighting for a wor…
If we weren't fighting for a world where citizens can speak up about the crimes of their governments, what were we fighting for? The destruction of our enemies, the annihilation of their ideology, the power of our ruling class. Ideals are overwhelmingly window dressing or there would be a hell of a lot more Edward Snowden's. Surely at least one per cent of the people the NSA recruit each year are as close to being ra…
Re: Leakers, privacy activists find new home in Berlin
#11Well you know the old punk saying "never trust a hippy" :-)