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Court order seeks email of Wikileaks volunteer Jake Appelbaum
- goodweeds 15y agohttps://uloadr.com/u/rA44.png https://uloadr.com/u/rA44.png to get around the wsj paywall.
- aw3c2 15y agoSeems like simply not allowing cookies will get you to the text too.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThe headline is a bit sensationalistic, if arguably accurate. Edit for the downvoters: before it was modified, the headline read something to the effect of "US Government invades jacob Applebaum's privacy in continuing Wikileaks witch hunt".
- safeaim 15y agoWhat's untrue about that older headline? Isn't that exactly what's happening right now?
- redthrowaway 15y agoI'm always suspicious of people who put conveying their emotional reaction to a story above getting the facts across. You see it on reddit all the time, and submitters hide behind the very justification you just gave. In the end, it lowers overall quality. Good journalism is about more than simply truth. It's about professionalism and the appearance of such. Similarly, on HN I don't want to be browbeaten by people's moral judgements on any given issue. Give me the facts and I'll make my own judgements. I happen to agree that the USG's actions against Wikileaks supporters are, if not extralegal, then certainly not in keeping with the ideals the US justice system is based on. That does not, however, mean that having headlines like that improves my experience on HN.
- sage_joch 15y agoThe US government is becoming increasingly opposed to individual freedom (see: the DEA, the TSA, the NSA, its response to Wikileaks, its incarceration rates, its use of torture, etc, etc, etc). I'm glad there are still people like Jacob who will put up a fight against these infringements. So many people choose the path of least short-term resistance.
- TruthElixirX 15y agoIt has been opposed to individual freedom since it put down the Whiskey Rebellion. If people cared about personal freedom George Washington would have been hung for treason.
- darklajid 15y agoYou intrigued me. Care to drop a couple of keywords that I could use in a search for my new quest to explore that history?
- Zev 15y agoThe history of the Federalist party and of the Alien and Sedition Acts would be a good starting point. And, as TruthElixirX said, the Whiskey Rebellion. For bonus points, be sure to pay attention to the American political response to the French Revolution and the XYZ affair, and to the relationship early America had with Britain[1]. Note: George Washington himself didn't belong to any political party (and he has famously spoken out against their existence). But, a lot of his policies were aligned with the Federalist party ideals. 1. If the words "Special Relationship" don't mean much to you, thats another fun topic to explore — and this is where it all started. But that's only marginally related to the question you asked.
- TruthElixirX 15y agoI'm not really sure what to tell you. In my ideal world the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded. George Washington was hung for treason. The Articles of Confederation were not replaced through the Constitutional Coup. Slavery becomes out competed by the market and in areas where it is not out competed guerrilla armies of abolitionists attack plantations/slave owners in the night and smuggle out their newly freed comrades. Start here: http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn?page=55 http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn?page=55 Its a graphic novel, bur whatever. It will give you an idea of what gets my libertarian boner going in regards to revising history.
- yread 15y agoWell he would be crazy to use US based email providers for anything important anyway
- danssig 15y agoAmazing how far we've come, eh? Hard for me to reconcile the fact that I have to put US-based communications in the same mental bucket as China-based communications.
- sneak 15y agoIt's been true since I first wrote it in January: http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110113/wikileaks/ http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110113/wikileaks/ PS: The PATRIOT Act which perpetuates this kind of idiocy is ten years old this month. It's time to leave America. I did!
- RexRollman 15y agoAh, the good old United States, where safety is more important than freedom.
- ddw 15y agoFunny thing is I don't even see how this makes us more safe.