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1. Neon Cipher (neoncipher@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jan-2019 12:11:16 CET Neon Cipher

   • Aral Balkan

   Excellent article by @aral exposes hypocrisy of some well-respected organizations, including Mozilla and GNOME foundation:

   https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

   #freedom #opensource #foss #mozilla #gnome #privacy

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   • Spoon 🇺🇦 (spoon@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jan-2019 07:51:38 CET Spoon 🇺🇦

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     • Aral Balkan

     @neoncipher @aral

     Privacy conferences certainly don't mind having the likes of Google, Facebook, Palantir, and Acxiom among their sponsors (https://fpf.org/about/supporters/). Prominent privacy researchers don't mind serving on the board of Palantir, either (https://www.palantir.com/2012/11/announcing-the-palantir-council-on-privacy-and-civil-liberties/)

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   • Neon Cipher (neoncipher@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jan-2019 09:42:29 CET Neon Cipher

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Spoon 🇺🇦

     @spoon thank you for the link. You raised another important issue. Those "Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties" are mostly from American universities. Academia showed its true colors after Aaron Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by MIT police. Those clowns said nothing to help Aaron during the next 2 years (!) of prosecution, not a single word. Academia represents corporate interest not public. Everyone should watch The Internet's Own Boy documentary.

     @aral
     #privacy #freedom

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