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Commented on Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)
The "antisecrecy" argument advanced here is more sophisticated than the phenomenon it describes. This is just a big blip that does not, alas, indicate a change in the inherent possibility of secrecy in the future. After Bradley Manning and Stuxnet,...
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Charlie Stross commented on
Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)
Greg, please do not feed the trolls....
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Charlie Stross commented on
Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)
I take your point. However, I've got a couple of concerns. One is that my server is hosted in the UK and vile, spittle-flecked rants are potentially actionable as defamation. (Not that I expect the subject of that particular rant to come after me with a pointy stick -- there are far more lucrative targets who've libelled him far worse, and anyway, I suspect he'd view it as suppression of free speech -- but the point remains.) Secondly, I'm paying for this server, and I do not want to provide a platform for that particular opinion. (Which was roughly 180...
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Charlie Stross commented on
Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)
NB: #247 is not the only drive-by flame we've had to moderate this week. It's getting tiresome....
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Charlie Stross commented on
Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)
Possibly related to #247, did you read "Transition"? If so, what did you make of the bit where Banksie suggested that "American Republicanism" may be a sociopathic mental disorder? Short form: I disagree. Longer form: To the extent that your choice of political party is a tribal identity, and people who start voting for one party in a duopoly tend to keep voting for them, there are plenty of republicans still voting left over from the days when the republican party wasn't batshit-insane ... before Nixon's Southern Strategy dragged it to the right and then handed it over to the...
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Charlie Stross commented on
Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)
I think it's an over-simplification at best Also note the tendency of the internet to act as an amplifier for Bad Craziness in public -- serious antisocial behaviour that the perps can indulge in without fear of the kind of physical sanctions they could expect to incur if they tried to pull that shit in meatspace. They make a disproportionate amount of noise and give a really bad name to whatever cause they embrace. (This goes for all sides.)...
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