New Orleans The facts eventually silence the press releases, or at least that should be the case, especially when it comes to trying to close the gaping internet divide for lower income workers and minorities in the United States. Figures now indicate that despite the Obama Administration’s expenditure of $7 billion to expand internet access, …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Poitras and Greenwald Make Me Feel Naïve
New Orleans Reading the New York Times magazine feature by Peter Maass on filmmaker Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald’s interactions with Edward Snowden and the gyrations involved in handling his NSA documents, made me feel naïve and not paranoid exactly, but uncomfortable and almost scared in an oh-my-god-this-is-so-much-worse-than-1984-kinda-way. Of course I had no …
Continuing Relevance of Wikileaks, Assange, and Snowden
New Orleans Contrary to many published stories, the reports of Wikileaks’ death and demise seem exaggerated, and despite the tedium the mainstream media has developed for Julian Assange and his antics, suddenly he seems relevant again, and Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, seems, surprisingly, to have ignited exactly the kind of high level national and …