Kim Dotcom is a shit-ass grifter that earned millions by selling access to pirated media, then portrayed himself as a champion for information freedom. I wouldn't trust a word coming out of his mouth.
I mean I think he's pretty on the money with the "get given a secure phone by whatever security agency and still use your iPhone". It's a weird sort of status-symbol / rules are for the peasants thing I gues? It just genuinely seems to happen a lot.
Selling access to pirated media, and going toe-to-toe with DMCA makes him the one free speech warrior I can get behind (well unless he's a pedo which I could definitely see being a thing).
If we truly had free speech then I should be a able to write down any sequence of 1s and 0s I want.
This is my one sovereign-citizen-type crazy legalese stance.
Well that does not surprise me, the minecraft creator is also a nazi.
But i did find this which I feel like is a funny but not realistic excuse:
"I'm a Call of Duty player right... it's all about World War Two and how you play and I'm a big fan of that. I've bought memorabilia from Churchill, from Stalin, from Hitler."
But Mr Dotcom denied his ownership of the book meant he subscribed to Hitler's Nazi ideology.
"Well, let me make it absolutely clear, I'm not buying into the Nazi ideology. I'm totally against what the Nazis did."
"I did buy a cigar holder of Churchill and I did buy a pen of Stalin."
"I'm not a nazi, just a gamer who's into WW2 history" is an all time classic excuse
I don't see how basically saying "information doesn't need to be free, it's just the wrong people making money off it, it should go to me" can be constructed as serious activism. Yeah, maybe critical support for tying the copyright bullies up in lawsuits, but he's not Robin Hood, he's robbing the rich so he can live in a castle for himself.
How did his fighting in court have any implication on information not being free?
I only knew him as the Megaupload guy who got very sued, and reading his biography he clearly just happened to be on the cool side we might be able to critically support because of his specific grift.
But I'm not sure what he's fighting against would only be about him making money off stuff. If he somehow won his lawsuit (not happening) then wouldn't that ruling mean torrenting (peer-to-peer sharing, which is actually freeing information) would be protected too? And internet archive would probably be able to archive more stuff?
Yeah he's a guy who made money off a sketchy website that hosts shit behind sketchy ads that should've probably just been on torrent trackers, but that doesn't mean I won't root for him in his lawsuit and just hope he loses all his money at the same time in legal fees and fades to obscurity because of course he's also a nazi (thing that was just pointed to me on this website today because I didn't really follow him so don't want to go to bat for him too much)
Hence the critical support. His actions can definitely have positive effects (although it's very unlikely to succeed). But he's no champion of information freedom, and his posturing as such just rubs me the wrong way. He's fighting for his right to a mansion, not for the rights of internet archive.
Kim Dotcom is a shit-ass grifter that earned millions by selling access to pirated media, then portrayed himself as a champion for information freedom. I wouldn't trust a word coming out of his mouth.
I mean I think he's pretty on the money with the "get given a secure phone by whatever security agency and still use your iPhone". It's a weird sort of status-symbol / rules are for the peasants thing I gues? It just genuinely seems to happen a lot.
Trump used an android phone as his personal and refused to switch over to an NSA phone. Truly the people’s president.
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sadly that means it could've been just 2 years out of date because that's when most manufacturers stop updates.
Android OEM support annoys me. Always buy a phone you can root and put something like Graphene OS on
The obummer version was using a blackberry that had an encrypted mode.
I think Hillary Clinton just used a normal blackberry as secretary of state
I'm mostly thinking europe here honestly, the USA seems to take this stuff a lot more serious for their government
I'm willing to be it's as dumb as "It's too much hassle to move all my stuff over to a different (probably shittier) phone" most of the time
Selling access to pirated media, and going toe-to-toe with DMCA makes him the one free speech warrior I can get behind (well unless he's a pedo which I could definitely see being a thing).
If we truly had free speech then I should be a able to write down any sequence of 1s and 0s I want.
This is my one sovereign-citizen-type crazy legalese stance.
He does own a signed copy of Mein Kampf and you can google pictures of him wearing an SS helmet. Does that count?
As in... signed by Hitler himself?
Signed by Hitler himself.
Well that does not surprise me, the minecraft creator is also a nazi.
But i did find this which I feel like is a funny but not realistic excuse:
"I'm not a nazi, just a gamer who's into WW2 history" is an all time classic excuse
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I don't see how basically saying "information doesn't need to be free, it's just the wrong people making money off it, it should go to me" can be constructed as serious activism. Yeah, maybe critical support for tying the copyright bullies up in lawsuits, but he's not Robin Hood, he's robbing the rich so he can live in a castle for himself.
How did his fighting in court have any implication on information not being free?
I only knew him as the Megaupload guy who got very sued, and reading his biography he clearly just happened to be on the cool side we might be able to critically support because of his specific grift.
But I'm not sure what he's fighting against would only be about him making money off stuff. If he somehow won his lawsuit (not happening) then wouldn't that ruling mean torrenting (peer-to-peer sharing, which is actually freeing information) would be protected too? And internet archive would probably be able to archive more stuff?
Yeah he's a guy who made money off a sketchy website that hosts shit behind sketchy ads that should've probably just been on torrent trackers, but that doesn't mean I won't root for him in his lawsuit and just hope he loses all his money at the same time in legal fees and fades to obscurity because of course he's also a nazi (thing that was just pointed to me on this website today because I didn't really follow him so don't want to go to bat for him too much)
Hence the critical support. His actions can definitely have positive effects (although it's very unlikely to succeed). But he's no champion of information freedom, and his posturing as such just rubs me the wrong way. He's fighting for his right to a mansion, not for the rights of internet archive.
Kim dotcom leaking this makes me believe it slightly less