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Censorship: Snowden and Greenwald on the Matter
by grarpamp 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/video-interview-with-edward-snowden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qEuKCS-czU Censorship: Snowden and Greenwald " VIDEO: Interview with Edward Snowden on Silicon Valley Censorship, Biden, and Lurking Press Freedom Dangers How did we travel so far from the original vision of the internet as the one place humans could communicate and organize free of state and corporate control? Glenn Greenwald 18 hr ago 132 90 The NSA reporting of 2013, enabled by the heroic whistleblowing of Edward Snowden, was widely perceived at the time time to be about violations of the right to privacy. It was, of course, about that, but the revelations implicated numerous other vital liberties, including free speech, a free press, the need for transparency over state actors and especially the always-lurking security state, and the dangers of allowing governments to make the most consequential decisions in the dark, with no democratic consent or accountability. But the overarching cause uniting all of those specific concerns was a belief in and defense of internet freedom. In one of the earliest interviews we conducted with Snowden in Hong Kong, he explained that he was driven in large part by the central, vital role which the early version of the internet played in his life: one that was free of corporate and state control, that permitted anonymity and exploration free of monitoring, and, most of all, fostered unrestrained communication and dissemination of information by and among citizens of the world without corporate and state overlords regulating and controlling what they were saying. It was that Wild West vision of the internet that led so many to herald it at its inception as one of the greatest and most potent innovations in modern history for fostering individual freedom, human liberation, empowerment of ordinary citizens, and the ability of people to organize and communicate without having to depend on corporate giants and the governments they fund and control. In many ways, that vision is a faint memory — submersed in the mass surveillance Snowden exposed but which still persists, the corporatization of the most influential online venues and, increasingly, the control over the flow of speech and information by unseen oligarchical overlords whose decrees require no identifiable rationale and afford no appeal. The power of these unseen discourse-regulators is final, arbitrary and absolute. It does not have to be this way. A free internet is still worth fighting for and is still salvageable. But it faces growing threats: from corporate media outlets eager to suffocate anything that threatens their discourse-monopoly by ginning up pressure on Silicon Valley to censor various dissidents and independent voices even more so than they are now; from political parties and politicians who wield great influence with tech giants and know they can exploit that influence to silence their critics and adversaries; and the increasing concentration of power over the internet in the hand of a few monopolies whose power and wealth makes it irresistible for power centers to try to harness to suffocate dissent. On Monday I spoke with Snowden for a special episode of SYSTEM UPDATE, for roughly 40 minutes about the growing dangers of Silicon Valley censorship, why a tech industry that never wanted the power or responsibility to regulate discourse has had that obligation foisted upon them by politicians and journalists, the lurking dangers to press freedoms, and how a Biden/Harris administration may make all of this worse: "

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FOR Gramps, the Darkness and STASI
by professor rat 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Don't say I never do anything for you Nazi faggots https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-strange-strange-story_b_136697

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Censorship: PC Crypuddle over Peterson's New Book
by grarpamp 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bv3x/penguin-random-house-staff-confront-… https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1331398252558573568 https://mobile.twitter.com/jordanbpeterson https://mobile.twitter.com/MikhailaAleksis https://jordanbpeterson.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu635BJxBQE Beyond Order: Intro by Jordan Peterson Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos "We remain committed to publishing a range of voices and viewpoints.” Expect cowardly about-face by Tuesday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWbj-2DRLps Checking the PC Facts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blTglME9rvQ Infamy and Truth Stand up straight, get ready!

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ONO
by professor rat 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Sean Lennon goes all in on Btc - dragoons his Mom https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-is-the-technology-of-dissent-t…

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Nobody writes to the general
by professor rat 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Michael Hayden reportedly once said " Collect it all " in 2001-2. But no one knew this for years. I had probably already said this on the list as part of encrypt it all, remail it all and back it all up. It was implicit in my 2001-2 idea for the next-level internet. The NSA are pathetic followers - they can only ever aspire to be our useful idiots and willing dupes. Or maybe follow Jims excellent advice for all USG 'public servants' Quit now and beg for mercy. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors.." You remember that fact.

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MESH the Planet
by professor rat 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

" Matt Taylor " is my slave name - like " Cassius Clay ". So far assassination politics has been mentioned at legal proceedings involving Jim Bell, Carl Johnson and myself. Proof of concept for APster considered as radical civil-disobedience and also global dissent. I reside in Au. This approach continued to be tested alongside the slow and steady progress of " Stiffs " dotcom till the PAM-FutureMaps confirmation that the Military-Industrial-Complex was working on a top-heavy form of AP. By 2005 it seemed the LEO's were not going to prosecute any more punks for APster. " Victory is here - its just not evenly distributed " - Great Dismal Then the US Secret Service moved from ' investigating ' all threats against all ' protected persons ' ( Snerk! ) to ' assessing " all threats. Soon after that I started making my regular demands - from 2009 on - for the USG ( and NSA obviously ) to surrender. Free all Drug War prisoners, reconstitute PAM and let that handle the transition to net rule. Then - since 1917-8 I added another humiliating condition. They have to mention ' APster' in the announcements. The USG / NSA have been a Paper Tiger since 2001. Read the archives. " Matthew X " If they ever did decide to ' crush ' me that would probably just advertize the whole thing and hasten their demise. Anyway, I fear them a lot less than I fear the Corpse Media ginning up some celebrity thought leader - like Poxie Fishhook, or Amir Turkey - and fouling the airwaves for another five years. In any large Military-Entertainment-Complex the media are precisely half the problem. And now they are the main problem.

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Anarchism and punk, with contemporary emphasis and global spread.
by professor rat 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

https://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchism-and-punk-–-call-chapters Whilst anarchism has been well recognised as punk’s primary political companion, it is of course not the case that all punks are anarchist, nor that all anarchists are punk. Even within the 40+ year entwinement of punk and anarchism, the relationship has been far from straightforward. In the coming together of two such multifaceted entities, fractiousness is to be expected ...'

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MESH the Planet
by professor rat 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Local yokel anarchists may want to avert their eyes since some things - once seen - cannot be unseen. Like this fascinating visualization of meshed planet with all-encrypted-all-the-time internet, fully backed up and remailed on the hour and regular back-ups made to repurposed server-farms ( yes, Jeff, Mark, Bill and Co, we are going to ' nationalize ' all your infrastructure for the UN - United Networks ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection#/media/File:Pei… "Whose gonna pay for the ocean coverage? " - I hear you say? The same people who thought they could salt away trillions as ' Tropical Plunder ', also bootstrapping effects. When our global UBI is up and running I conservatively estimate a regular double-figure growth rate in the world economy. Now if global peace, plenty and social-justice offends you then try killing yourself before CYPHERPUNK 2027 arrives. And may your God go with you.

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ADAM Backstabber too stupid to be anarchist
by professor rat 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Hey Darkarse - didja see that Rightwing religious terrorist is being deported? Apropos of nothing much, where were you born?

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ADAM Backstabber too stupid to be anarchist
by professor rat 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Coming from you that's a compliment, Darkness, but it is also the case that if you have successfully minimized war then it follows with a geometric logic that you could start to minimize politics. Anarchists minimize nationalist electoral politics by design. No anarchists have been expected at the national polls since 1848. Now, can we get YOU on the record with uncritical support for both Assange and Nick Szabo? Silence assumes assent.

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