You read it here last, from the UN Human Rights Commissioner. Zamyatin, Orwell, Chomsky, Hager, Binney, Drake, Assange, Snowden ... they've been on about this for a century. Ten years ago it was conspiracy theory, now it's mainstream social reality. Still, most people don't care to listen... secure in their televised Colosseum serial economic treadmill stupour... knocking back throwaway media to numb themselves to the truth, competing to buy fallacious fashion facepalm devices that actively discourage intellectual authorship, context, privacy or even direct unmediated expression... but perhaps the tide is finally changing?
On the flip-side, this one's nicely timed, given the preface and thrust of Cypherpunks[0], for the same day as the review of Assange's case in Sweden... which according to Assange's recent interview[1] should get thrown out after tomorrow's appeal[2]. I wonder if the UN gets it now? Of course, it's semi-irrelevant anyway since the US will cockblock[3] them on actually actioning anything remotely related to real, functional, positive change, but it's a nice gesture on the human rights commissioner's part for national-level change-makers to point the finger at.
On the flip-side, this one's nicely timed, given the preface and thrust of Cypherpunks[0], for the same day as the review of Assange's case in Sweden... which according to Assange's recent interview[1] should get thrown out after tomorrow's appeal[2]. I wonder if the UN gets it now? Of course, it's semi-irrelevant anyway since the US will cockblock[3] them on actually actioning anything remotely related to real, functional, positive change, but it's a nice gesture on the human rights commissioner's part for national-level change-makers to point the finger at.
0. http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/
1. http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/7/exclusive_inside_embass...
2. http://www.thisdayinwikileaks.org/2014/07/15-july-2014.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council...