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You have heard more about leaks that affect United States because of the news you read. Many (not all, but many) of my leads to breaking news on surveillance a
by tokenadult 13y ago
You have heard more about leaks that affect United States because of the news you read.
Many (not all, but many) of my leads to breaking news on surveillance and data-collection programs come from Hacker News, which includes worldwide participation, so it is a bit surprising that there is so much news about the United States here. Other news aggregation services I rely on (including the wall posts of my literate, diverse, worldwide group of Facebook friends) indeed include more news about other countries than HN sometimes does.
What are the best sources we can readily link to today about surveillance and data-collection practices in China and in Russia?
AFTER EDIT TO RESPOND TO REPLY BELOW: I already know Chinese, as a review of quite recent comments of mine here on Hacker News would make abundantly clear. My Russian is rusty, as I haven't kept it up through daily use since the early 1980s, but I have read the Russian press (of the communist era) in the original Russian, and I still take care to be aware of the Russian official and Russian popular perspectives on world news.
- TillE 13y agoIt's amusing that you think HN isn't overwhelmingly US-focused. First, you'll want to try learning Chinese or Russian.
- guelo 13y agoI can't really tell you what news to follow, maybe I've just been more interested in Wikileaks over the years. If you really are interested Wikipedia has a good summary of their leaks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Leaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Leaks In any case Wikileaks is opportunistic, they rely on leaks wherever they may originate.
- FuzzyDunlop 13y agoI suppose the overbearing influence of the San Francisco startup scene doesn't really have that much of an effect on the general HN readership...
- tripzilch 13y ago> Hacker News, which includes worldwide participation, so it is a bit surprising that there is so much news about the United States here. HN is extremely americanocentric.