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In reply to the discussion: I don't know what the fuck to believe anymore about the Assange case. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)more like see, this was hidden too.
I have a problem with them releasing patient data, but what they were doing is more the... see this is how far corporations go to hide stuff. They missed the problems with HIPA, it is not Jobs, it is everybody. That was a lack of understanding US policies and laws, and foreigners have issues with that one actually regularly. We have some really particular laws when it comes to privacy.
But hey, my interpretation of the whole Julian Assange saga is that at this point his life is over, and multiple governments have been embarrassed. It revealed a lot about the international order and quite frankly, how much misgovernment protect corporations.
We are, imho, at the end of the nation state and the beginning of the dominance of the new corporate order. That by the way was the big picture note Assange made at one point, and he was not prescient. I will give that to the writers of cyberpunk back in the 1980s.