Summary: New video titled "The [Character] Assassination of Julian Assange" and some words about the latest smear campaign's fallout
THERE is a conversation going on about cablegate news we've been covering and will continue to cover later today (in daily links). It's about coordinated attacks on people -- attacks that are said to be funded and backed-by-proxy by companies that suffer from the actions of activists. Many of the links can be found in the comments thread and the following new video is appropriate for getting another point across.
Be sceptical of smear campaigns that target people who expose large and unethical companies. Be a lot less sceptical of people who expose large and unethical companies. ⬆
Jonathan E. Turner, who runs a Tennessee-based business that gathers intelligence for corporate clients, said that companies nationwide relied on investigators to gather potentially damaging information on possible business partners or rivals. "Information is power," said Mr. Turner, former chairman of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He estimated that the "competitive intelligence" industry had 9,700 companies offering these services, with an annual market of more than $2 billion
It's very troubling and a symptom of a broken society/system when particular laws or rules are applied and enforced against some people but not against others
So-called "hey hi" as they define it now is all about large companies or regimes remotely controlling the processes running on your machine and even your very own behaviour on your machine, which is in effect no longer your machine but some remotely controlled apparatus
The very same companies that were supposed to maintain quality (again, not limited to Google with PageRank) are now actively participating in generating and spreading slop
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2011-02-14 03:14:25