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Someone warned about this like yesterday... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12668079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12668079
by wfunction 10y ago
Someone warned about this like yesterday... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12668079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12668079
- return0 10y agoThats was not really valid. Every site is technical. There is far more business documents in dropbox than in github. Plus the purpose of the leakers is to create disruption, and apparently it works.
- the_mitsuhiko 10y agoFor people working in a turkey as programmers I'm pretty sure not having access to GitHub and Dropbox is not great. Surely for political statements you can use any stupid host.
- lolc 10y agoIt all depends on our goals. If the intent is to get people to act, disrupting their life might just be the right thing to do. In this case I blame the Turkish government 100%, the publishers of the material 0%. The guy in question is actually shutting down opposition media in Turkey. If we expect the dissidents to not use the best-connected channels available to them for fear of inconveniencing others, we are complicit in silencing them.
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- nashashmi 10y ago> disrupting their life might just be the right thing to do. Never the right thing to do. > we are complicit in silencing them. This is akin to calming a baby crying really hard for attention. I understand that you want to partake in a protest from really far away, but you must have better ways of doing so than hurting them.
- lolc 10y agoCivil disobedience has a long history of sometimes working. > I understand that you want to partake in a protest from really far away, but you must have better ways of doing so than hurting them. I'm observing, not partaking. The Turkish state is doing the hurting, don't shift the blame.