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In the top 3 most insightful pieces of journalism I have read in 2016. Whatever your opinion on Julian Assange, this is a fascinating look into details of how p
by culturalzero 10y ago
In the top 3 most insightful pieces of journalism I have read in 2016. Whatever your opinion on Julian Assange, this is a fascinating look into details of how power structures are evolving in the 21st century. Makes me think the government has a much tighter pulse on what's going on than I had previously thought. Perhaps part of the trick is they want you to think they're idiots.
- skybrian 10y agoWhat did you find interesting about it? (I'll confess, I skimmed.)
- ariwilson 10y agouser: culturalzero created: 1 hour ago karma: 5
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- culturalzero 10y agoYeah, I've been browsing hacker news for about 3 years actually, but never felt an impulse to comment until now. Helps that I've entered a more political period of my life recently.
- culturalzero 10y agoI will make sure to check in with you over the coming months and years to assure you I'm real :)
- 58 10y agoI make new accounts here all the time, and I've been posting on HN for 7+ years.
- grzm 10y agoWhy do you make new accounts?
- culturalzero 10y agoIt goes into specific details that only someone who is linked into these events would be able to describe and recognize. Someone like Assange, before he was exiled. Of course most of these people aren't open about these kinds of things either. I'm very interested in how large tech companies are wielding their power politically, because they get to bypass borders governments cannot. We've seen this with multinational corporations for a very long time of course, but nothing with the capabilities like Google-when practically everyone is living with a smartphone in their pocket at all times, with all the data, big and small, that creates. I think despite his biases, Assange does a great job at capturing how this is currently evolving.
- Pyxl101 10y agoI found it interesting in the blunt way it described the connections between Silicon Valley and Washington politics; the way they are enmeshed and influence one another; the way one acts using the other as cover.