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Kim Dotcom Suffers Stroke
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- miskatonic 2y agoA legend. I’m still amazed by how ahead of the time MEGA was with full in browser file encryption when the other players weren’t ever starting on that.
- bee_rider 2y agoIf nothing else you have to admire the balls it takes to fight the US for over a decade.
- tokinonagare 2y agoThere seems to have something with Kim that make them resist the US :)
- bee_rider 2y agoYeah, I guess. Unlike the NK Kim, the NZ one seems to have some basic respect for human rights (or at least he isn’t trying to violate them at scale).
- deprecative 2y agoUnlike Dotcom, NK Kim is going to achieve his goals by uniting the Korean peninsula when SK becomes a ghost land due to a collapsed birthrate.
- piyh 2y agoFor such a controversial figure, he's directly created positive impacts in my life.
- voisin 2y agoPlease expand
- tokinonagare 2y agoProbably because of the cultural goods available for free? I watched ton of Japanese animes back in the day that were not published in my country, or when it was very out of price (I bought manga tho, which were cheaper).
- im3w1l 2y agoI found Mega a good privacy respecting service for keeping backups of my files.
- whamlastxmas 2y agoAt least until the warrant canary was gone
- adamnemecek 2y agoI used to root for this guy until he became pro-Putin.
- pfannkuchen 2y agoWhen you say pro-Putin, do you mean actually pro-Putin or just for ending the war in Ukraine? At this point I feel like the people protesting the Vietnam war would be regarded by the current online zeitgeist as “pro-Mao”.
- gradyfps 2y agoFrom his Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Promotion_of_conspiracy_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Promotion_of_conspi... "During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Dotcom has repeatedly spread anti-Ukrainian falsehoods, and Russian government propaganda. Critics accuse him of spreading Russian Federation propaganda such as: claims of Nazism in Ukraine, Ukrainian attacks on Russian-speaking minority, claims of American "biolaboratories" in Ukraine, and accusing the US of causing the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine." As with all Wikipedia refs, review their sources yourself.
- auntienomen 2y agoAlthough, the sources in this case are basically articles citing things he said on Twitter.
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoDoes that make them invalid? Surely we’re not expecting to see Dotcom’s dangerous misinformation published in a peer reviewed scientific journal?
- mingus88 2y agoI believe OPs point was that there is very little ambiguity when the source is his very own words posted by him directly
- edm0nd 2y agoPretty weird how Hollywood corpos and lobbyists can convince the US government to prosecute a non-US citizen who's across the globe all while using illegally issued warrants to raid him.
- alsetmusic 2y agoEven weirder how corporations are able to persecute US citizens for holding them legally accountable in other parts of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Class_action_lawsuit_against_Chevron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Class_action_l... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Counter-litigation_against_Donziger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Counter-litiga... TLDR: a judge in the pocket of Chevron let their lawyers keep the lawyer who won a judgement against Chevron keep him in house arrest. The who case is a misuse of the criminal justice system.
- orbisvicis 2y agoI can't find much information about the Hague decision. The Reuters article is basically a blurb, and the WSJ is paywalled. To summarize Wikipedia, Guerro - the judge which Chevron immigrated to the US - seems to have exaggerated his testimony; he later walks back much of everything involving Donziger (ghostwriting and bribes). I was hoping that the references to the Hague's decision would have more information.
- Cody-99 2y agoI'll never understand why people think being across the globe matters. Basically all internet crime can be done across the globe (plus tons of other types of crime like drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, etc). Being in a different country doesn't give you free reign to commit crime.
- kome 2y agowhy should one jurisdiction be above another? what even is the jurisdiction of the internet? sorry, but your answer is just out of touch
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- CarpaDorada 2y agoThe article says Kim Dotcom is fighting deportation to the US. Isn't the right term extradition?
- jfengel 2y agoYes.
- underseacables 2y agoI hope he's OK, what a rebel, all the way back to the Chaos computer club. It's been enjoyable watching him fight Hollywood.
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- brador 2y agoAge 50, born 1974 for those curious.