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sad to see that kind of comments in HN. I feel that 10 years ago there was more room for accepting that a political opponent should be free to speak up. now our
by finikytou 2y ago
sad to see that kind of comments in HN. I feel that 10 years ago there was more room for accepting that a political opponent should be free to speak up. now our educated masses are pushing for prison and extradition because they don't belong to the axis of good.... you def cannot be for opensource and its values and say things like that
- herculity275 2y agoThe comment you're responding to just speculates that he will escape to Russia based on his (very consistent) views and activism, there's no suggestion that he should go to prison because of them.
- finikytou 2y ago[flagged]
- herculity275 2y ago> there is definitly a suggestion and I would even say more than that. the OP comment literaly says he is on the payroll of russia lol Being on Russian payroll is not a criminal offense, there are plenty of RT-affiliated journalists who still operate in the West.
- retinaros 2y agolol. please stop. we know what being on a russian payroll means. just like we knew irak didnt have weapons of mass destruction. you tell yourself the lies because you know once the truth will come out there will be other matters to tend
- philippejara 2y agoThe comment he's responding to speculates that he is being paid by russia to post on twitter, as if people couldn't come to their own conclusions based on their own views and their own biases, which are very very strong against the US if you're Kim Dotcom with good reason.
- thor-rodrigues 2y agoI don't understand your line of thought. The question with Kim was not about open-source, was about copyright and intellectual property all along. As other comments noted, the man literally made millions distributing copyrighted material, while completely aware of what he was doing.
- enriquec 2y agono. he gave people a way to send stuff and they sent what they wanted.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoHave you read the indictment? It makes a pretty strong case that he knew copyright infringement was the cash cow of his business model, structuring the business and lying to copyright holders in order to make the infringement more effective. Deleting links without removing the infringing content from the server is the big smoking gun to me - there’s really no legitimate reason to do that.
- enriquec 2y agodisagree
- snapcaster 2y agoSo what? are you a record executive? why do you feel so strongly about this? what is motivating you to simp for the empire so hard?
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoI don’t think this is an honest question and I’m not going to engage with it.
- throwadobe 2y agoThat's the mother of cop outs. It's an absolutely honest question.
- slightwinder 2y agoKim is not a political opponent, he is a convicted criminal who now very deep in fake news, conspiracy myths and other lies. This is not someone who has just a different opinion on some things, but one with a long history of seriously harmful behavior.
- retinaros 2y agohow is it different than what youtube, chatgpt, fb or even google drive did? the only difference is his political stance
- slightwinder 2y agoThose are services, not people. And what illegal stuff are they actually doing? Yes, people abuse them for illegal content, but it's not their normal modus operandi. The companies are removing content on proper request and do not actively aid in spreading it. And BTW since when has Kim any legit political stance? It has always been about money and fame for Kim. Political topics were never a serious part of him.
- retinaros 2y agothey did the same original thing he was blamed for. having a platform where people can upload stuff. but like you said he should be jailed for his beliefs because he shouldnt be free to spread his conspiracy theories. how about religious people shoudl we jail them too?
- retinaros 2y agoalso to your point about services removing illegal stuff here the NYT : “ During the first full month of the new ownership, the company suspended nearly 300,000 accounts for violating “child sexual exploitation” policies, 57 percent more than usual, the company said. The effort accelerated in January, Twitter said, when it suspended 404,000 accounts” how come musk did it with 80% people fired why wasnt it adressed before? would you send the previous twitter ceo to jail?
- squidbeak 2y agoIt isn't 'a difference of opinion'. Dotcom has relayed Russian disinformation to an impressionable mass audience and heartily cheerled an invasion. It's not surprising that people who disagree with him politically find themselves amused or glad at the prospect of due process being served in this individual's case - where they might otherwise have been indifferent or grudgingly sympathetic.
- snapcaster 2y agowhat makes you so sure you're not the impressionable audience being fed misinformation?
- squidbeak 2y agoRussia's quite open about it, and figures involved boast about it (as Margarita Simonyan and Vladislav Surkov both have). It's also trivially easy to compare the heavily digested and sanitised information that Russian affiliates feed their western audiences with Russia's domestic information space and notice the contradictions, for example, in outrages dismissed by their foreign servants but celebrated at home.
- snapcaster 2y agoI guess, i don't assume enemies of my country's government are the only ones doing such things