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BOZELL & GRAHAM: Europe Suppresses Speech For Muslim 'Feelings'

 

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Franz Frison, Irish Holocaust survivor, 12th December 1988 in a letter to the Irish Times.

 

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https://davidharrisjr.com/social-and-political/social-media-giant-threatens-to-shut-down-yet-another-conservative-page/

 

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In fact, before Assange was known for his romance with the Kremlin, and his shady contacts with scurvy Trumpites like Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr., he was a punk idol, a hacker god. For years, he seemed like an opener of governments who could disinfect the Earth with the sunlight of his tech virtuosity and his eccentric radiance.

But, like many online high-fliers of the aughts, Assange lacked a moral imagination equal to his skills as a technologist. Instead he soared along — a Byronic heartthrob to budding anarchists — on that era’s mandate: Do it for the lulz.

Over the past decade, the lulz — the laughs — have curdled.

When it synced with investigative journalism, exposing the Pentagon’s sometimes grave misconduct in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba, that was one thing. But to hook up with Russian oligarchs and military intelligence to embarrass one American political candidate on behalf of another — that’s not lulz. That’s deputizing yourself to an actual authoritarian regime, the kind that a hacker like Assange used to be committed to exposing.

It's not that Assange broke bad. It's that he was never doing any of this on principle. He was driven by snickers and spite.

Assange used to say his caches of documents were just dry facts and evidentiary exhibits. Journalists and everyone else could make of them what they would.

It’s not just dry facts when you cherry-pick from mostly banal documents — like the DNC, Palin and Podesta emails — for max innuendo. Or when you time your revelations down to the minute for max partisan impact.

On Oct. 7, 2016, precisely one hour after Trump could be heard on an “Access Hollywood” tape announcing his policy of arbitrarily mauling women’s crotches, WikiLeaks dropped the Russian-hacked Podesta emails, and conned the media into taking them seriously. It was a signal example of the moral flexibility and bothsidesism that plagues us to this day.

And it’s not just dry facts when you apparently collaborate in all this with intensely interested parties: a hostile foreign power, Russia; and Trump buddy Roger Stone, high priest of political dirty tricks.

 

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https://davidharrisjr.com/social-and-political/no-evidence-of-sexual-misconduct-senate-judiciary-committee-releases-full-brett-kavanaugh-report/

 

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