Before he was arrested and tossed into a jail used for terrorists, Julian Assange was investigating Google's plans for trolling your data to benefit government surveillance powers, according to a writer who visited him at the Ecuadoran embassy in London.
"I met Assange two years ago" in the embassy, said Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher, and on recalling what he "told me during our encounter, I think one can understand why he was arrested."
Agamben declared, "Assange mentioned to me that he was investigating how Google was planning to make use of the immense quantity of information at its disposal. It had to do with, according to Assange, selling to insurance companies and secret services data about the interests, desires, consumption habits, state of health, reading practices…in a nutshell data about the life of millions of individuals in all its aspects."
The philosopher continued, "According to Assange—and I believe we can share his view—this would mean an unprecedented increase in the possible ways of controlling human beings through the powers of the market and the police. What is at the core of Assange’s arrest is, therefore, not only the desire to punish past WikiLeaks investigations, but to impede investigations currently underway that evidently all those implicated seem to be threatened by. It is also for this reason that it is necessary to express unreserved solidarity with
Published in English by CounterPunch. Translated from the Italian by Masturah Alatas.
Assange's great deed
As a mostly libertarian individual, I have no problem quoting from the Left (as well as the Right). Both CounterPunch and British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn are on the Left. From CounterPunch:
Mrs. Clinton must answer for what she has done
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as the old saying goes.
"I met Assange two years ago" in the embassy, said Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher, and on recalling what he "told me during our encounter, I think one can understand why he was arrested."
Agamben declared, "Assange mentioned to me that he was investigating how Google was planning to make use of the immense quantity of information at its disposal. It had to do with, according to Assange, selling to insurance companies and secret services data about the interests, desires, consumption habits, state of health, reading practices…in a nutshell data about the life of millions of individuals in all its aspects."
The philosopher continued, "According to Assange—and I believe we can share his view—this would mean an unprecedented increase in the possible ways of controlling human beings through the powers of the market and the police. What is at the core of Assange’s arrest is, therefore, not only the desire to punish past WikiLeaks investigations, but to impede investigations currently underway that evidently all those implicated seem to be threatened by. It is also for this reason that it is necessary to express unreserved solidarity with
Published in English by CounterPunch. Translated from the Italian by Masturah Alatas.
Assange's great deed
As a mostly libertarian individual, I have no problem quoting from the Left (as well as the Right). Both CounterPunch and British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn are on the Left. From CounterPunch:
Jeremy Corbyn is correct to say that the affair is all about “the extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.” But, within hours of Assange’s detention, it was clear that nobody much cared about innocent people dying in the streets of Baghdad or in the villages of Afghanistan and Assange has already become a political weapon in the poisonous political confrontation over Brexit with Corbyn’s support for Assange enabling Conservatives to claim that he is a security risk.Denis Rogatyuk writes in CounterPunch that Ecuador President Lenin
Lost in this dog-fight is what Assange and WikiLeaks really achieved and why it was of great importance in establishing the truth about wars being fought [in our name] in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.
Moreno’s decision to silence Julian Assange and expel him serve a duel purpose -- to gain the trust of the Trump administration, and to distract the national and international public away from his corrupt dealing in off-shore bank accounts, the fraudulent elections of March 24th and his mishandling of the Ecuadorian economy. This has also been echoed in the comments made by Rafael Correa, the former President of Ecuador who first authorised Julian Assange’s asylum back in 2012. After having his page blocked on Facebook, Correa stated that “In his hatred, because Wikileaks published corruption of INA papers, Moreno wanted to destroy Assange’s life. He probably did it, but he has also done a huge damage to the country. Who will trust in ECUADOR again?”.
Mrs. Clinton must answer for what she has done
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as the old saying goes.
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