[liberationtech] Google defies FBI, asks federal judge to challenge National Security Letter

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On 04/05/2013 01:20 PM, Nicholas Merrill wrote:
> 
> In my humble opinion, Google deserves to be commended for taking
> this action which it did not have to take !
> 
*** Isn't the FBI is getting for free what they usually sell? Isn't
that a good enough incentive? Sure they're doing the right thing, this
time.

But I smell a trend in the last few weeks of enthusiastic
announcements for progress of this, and leaks of that. But there are
*details* that really look suspicious to me:

- - Google wants your information, it's their plan, and their business.
That they don't want to share it with the FBI is probably a good
thing, but it doesn't change their plan.

- - The recent OffshoreLeaks sound great, and are important, but I'm
(not) very surprised there's nobody really important there, just some
adequate puppets, so far. The real beneficiaries of offshore banking
are still hiding. Is that because the British Virgin Islands were
deemed expandable, or because we don't have the whole picture yet?

- - The shortlist of "State Enemies of the Internet" given by the
Reporters Without Borders is the most suspicious of all: Bahrain,
China, Iran, Syria, Vietnam. To everybody else, the actual enemies
would be the ones sitting on the UN Security Council, and another for
good measure: USA (ACTA? CISPA? NSL? NSA Bunker? StuxNet? Aaron
Swartz?), Israel (Stuxnet?), Russia, UK, France (Amesys, wow!), the
entire EU, Myanmar/Burma (hey, need to remember those racist buddhists
oppressing poor Muslims sometimes, unless it's politically incorrect
to do so?), etc. but no: instead they're pointing at the designated
enemies of "U.S. interests". (http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/)

It's become so difficult not to lose one's mind over paranoia, nor to
abandon all hope of seeing the light. The media landscape looks more
and more like a polarized lens to demonize "the enemy" (hint: you're
part of it) and sneak war propaganda everywhere. If I were in London,
I would bet on the declaration of war on Iran before Spring 2014.

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