On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:01:56PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote: > On 12/06/13 09:38, Patrice Riemens wrote: > > >GeziPark, PRISM, ERT shutdown come all as a shock. > > Some of the saddest specialist responses to PRISM that I've read > argue that it isn't a shock and that clever people knew this sort of > thing was going on anyway.
You didn't have to be clever to know that. (And a lot more). However, even temporary media attention recruits new people for the cause, and some stick long-term. It has repeatedly been argued that technology can't route around politics, but if politics fails, technology is all we've got. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
