Re: nettime Digital condition

2013-09-13 Thread dan mcquillan
hi natalie nice looking course. i think this piece from radical philosophy on wikileaks is pretty analytical: Keyspace - WikiLeaks and the Assange papers, by Finn Brunton http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/keyspace-wikileaks-and-the-assange-papers interesting on assange's use of graph

nettime Yochai Benkler: Time to tame the NSA behemoth

2013-09-13 Thread nettime's_chronicler
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/nsa-behemoth-trampling-rights Time to tame the NSA behemoth trampling our rights From leaks and Fisa court papers, it's clear the NSA is a bloated spying bureaucracy out of control. It can't be reformed by insiders Yochai Benkler

Re: nettime Yochai Benkler: Time to tame the NSA behemoth

2013-09-13 Thread Felix Stalder
Meanwhile, another take on the same issue. This time by Google's Eric Schmidt. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/eric-schmidt-google-nsa-surveillance There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the