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811.
by detcader 13y ago
In my experience it's less of a question as to whether one buys into or doesn't buy into the idea of privilege and more one of whether one understands it or (perhaps willfully) misunderstands or only bothers to gain a partial gras
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by detcader 13y ago
People like EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian C. York hold the view that Facebook (and likely Twitter too) "should not be in the business of censoring speech, even hate speech." [1] I tend to symp
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Rape Joke - A Poem By Patricia Lockwood(theawl.com)
5 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
Is there? http://www.salon.com/2007/12/09/democrats_9/ And solitary confinement is still fine, apparently. If people were waterboarded again, would anyone be punished? Maybe the private contractor doing
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by detcader 13y ago
Just like how Bradley Manning was treated totally legally and torture-free http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/26/eric-holder-well-maybe-...
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Where is 2009's John Boehner when we need him? (labels-kill.blogspot.com)
2 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
People and organizations like Lawrence Lessig and Democracy Matters have been on this issue forever. It's the root issue. The revolving door too. Pass Fair Elections in NY state this year, and then every other state. That's a star
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by detcader 13y ago
Merely "conservative"? Are you sure? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/25/democrat...
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by detcader 13y ago
I'm no experienced software or hardware hacker but I would have to guess that the best way to hear about "interesting hacks" (whatever those are) is to start doing some. Whether it be NERF guns or C, I can only imagine that o
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by detcader 13y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what was meant by a "market"; the OP is saying that a consumerist market may be emerging to provide "stuff that a REAL hacker would own", like how ThinkGeek.com et al is the market fo
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by detcader 13y ago
I'm a male and I'm tired of hearing "there is absolutely no denying that sexism exists" because it's not "sexism", it's normalization of gendered oppression on a cultural level. Girls and young women
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by detcader 13y ago
How has Reddit "signed on"? Their userbase is one of the biggest on that list but they didn't change their homepage at all..
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by detcader 13y ago
Barr seemed to think the CEO of Palantir was the kind of person he could share a plot to disrupt/destroy a journalist's career with, didn't he? (That journalist being Glenn Greenwald, now the Snowden leak publisher)
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by detcader 13y ago
The similarities to Aaron Swartz were being noted.
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Why is Larry Lessig plugging Palantir?(labels-kill.blogspot.com)
61 points by detcader 13y ago|36 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
What do you think I meant by "trust"? What I believe I meant was: Sufficient assumption of good will, respect, and principle on the part of Facebook's staff such that their private messages, restricted-access content etc woul
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by detcader 13y ago
These anecdotes are interesting, but do they address my comments? I'm talking about everybody.
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by detcader 13y ago
Where is the substance behind the statement "the trust is gone"? Has there been mass voluntary closings of Facebook accounts? Did their stock take a hit? Are their actual customers, the advertisers, even phased? I somehow doubt th
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by detcader 13y ago
What's wrong with Jill Stein?
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The militarized internet(digbysblog.blogspot.com.br)
1 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
According to Greenwald, The Guardian is "not remotely" walking back any initial claims. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/345315199257047040 onekade: Confused about this. The Guardian "correctio
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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Has a Higher Approval Rating Than Congress(reason.com)
8 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
Wasn't there a recent story where Gmail asks the user to renew their agreement to the Gmail ToS as a hint to their email being accessed?
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by detcader 13y ago
The root cause? It's always money. Lawrence Lessig makes this clear, in a TED talk no less ( http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t... )
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by detcader 13y ago
Trust me -- if Snowden wasn't anywhere he wanted to be, Greenwald would know and would be letting everyone else know.
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'Rough road ahead' for Internet wiretap bill amidst NSA leaks(thehill.com)
3 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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Glenn Greenwald: Challenging the US Surveillance State (2012) [Video](youtube.com)
3 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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Patriot ACT Section 702 Is Used for Terror, Proliferation, AND Hacking(emptywheel.net)
2 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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Notes on the tortured logic of Edward Snowden's critics(privacysos.org)
2 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
The FBI already plants or at least attempts to plant malware on targets (recently: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/04/25/texas_jud... and regularly: http://www.wired.com&#x2F

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