ReQuoting pt. 59 (The Pravda Edition)

It is the American people who should be outraged that its government has transformed a nation with a reputation for freedom, justice, tolerance and respect for human rights into a backwater that revels in its criminality, cover-ups, injustices and hypocrisies.

Die Pravda via Techdirt.

bonustweet:

geschäft der #diplomatie ist das management von gewalt, tyrannei, asymmetrischer wirtschaft. das gegenteil von "welt verbessern". #wikileaks

— Martin Lindner (@martinlindner) December 6, 2010

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The key, though, is that democracies have a process for creating such restrictions, and as a citizen it sickens me to see the US trying to take shortcuts. The leaders of Myanmar and Belarus, or Thailand and Russia, can now rightly say to us “You went after Wikileaks’ domain name, their hosting provider, and even denied your citizens the ability to register protest through donations, all without a warrant and all targeting overseas entities, simply because you decided you don’t like the site. If that’s the way governments get to behave, we can live with that.”

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