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Statement From Chelsea Manning's Legal Team?

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Lessig drops out of the presidential race

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nettime Fwd: The Greek position

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nettime EFF: Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet

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nettime The hope of the democratic monster, between Syriza and Podemos

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nettime The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of th

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nettime McKenzie Wark: This is not capitalism, this is something worse.

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nettime MI5 spied on leading British historians for decades

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nettime Cory Doctorw: Firefox's adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart

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nettime The world we're facing: more Kafka than Orwell

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nettime El Reg: Is the World Wide Web for luvvies and VCs - or for all of us?

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nettime Is bitcoin becoming normal?

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nettime ratpie: Sleepwalking into Walled Gardens

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nettime GoldieBlox, fair use, and the cult of disruption

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nettime A CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison.

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nettime Two million 'internet opinion analysts'

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nettime ERTopen: Call upon plea for satellite capacity

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nettime Darkness at Noon

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nettime Brazil to push for greater decentralization of Internet infrastructure

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nettime FT: Too much profit on Wall Street

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nettime An Open (Of Course) Letter to My Friend, the NSA

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nettime Black hat, white hat, green hat hackers

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nettime Julian Assange and Eric Schmit on Bitcoin, June 2011

On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK at the time, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Also in attendance was Jared Cohen, a former Secretary of State advisor to Hillary Clinton and Lisa

nettime Zizek Capitalism: How the left lost the argument.

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nettime Comrades, Join the Peer Progressive Movement!

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nettime Observer Jake Davis My life after Anonymous

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nettime Artforum Bishop Digital Divide: Whatever happened to digital art?

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nettime What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan

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nettime WikiLeaks: The Spy Files

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nettime RIP: Dennis Ritchie

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nettime message from Chinese activists and academics in support of Occupy Wall Street

This letter of solidarity, signed over by 50 intellectuals and activists in= =20 China, was posted to Utopia yesterday. Thanks to everyone for the=20 translation and editing work! http://chinastudygroup.net/2011/10/message-from-chinese-activists-and- academics-in-support-of-occupy-wall-street/

nettime Third Arab Bloggers Meeting: Highlights and Challenges in the Digital Age

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nettime EU extends music copyright for another 20 years

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