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Showing Original Post only (View all)Cryptome pushes Greenwald's ZOMG button. [View all]
A Radical Pro-Transparency Website Is Raising Money To Annoy Glenn GreenwaldBefore there was Wikileaks, there was Cryptome, still one of the web's premiere clearing-houses for information that government, industry, or the intelligence community wouldn't necessarily want to be made public. Now, the site is trying to raise $100,000 largely because of rifts within the pro-transparency community that Cryptome helped build.
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Business Insider got in touch with John Young, Cryptome's 78-year-old founder and a professional architect, to ask about the Kickstarter campaign. Young said that the money will go towards creating a system where any user can access the entirety of the site's archives.
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"I'll candidly admit that this is aimed at [Pierre] Omidyar's operation and these oligarchs moving into public service," Young told Business Insider. He accuses First Look Media the PayPal founder's media startup, anchored by Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the journalists who broke the Snowden leaks and even Wikileaks of "hyping public debate" through their coverage decisions.
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Greenwald's newly-published book is currently posted on Cryptome, free for anyone with an internet connection.
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Business Insider got in touch with John Young, Cryptome's 78-year-old founder and a professional architect, to ask about the Kickstarter campaign. Young said that the money will go towards creating a system where any user can access the entirety of the site's archives.
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"I'll candidly admit that this is aimed at [Pierre] Omidyar's operation and these oligarchs moving into public service," Young told Business Insider. He accuses First Look Media the PayPal founder's media startup, anchored by Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the journalists who broke the Snowden leaks and even Wikileaks of "hyping public debate" through their coverage decisions.
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Greenwald's newly-published book is currently posted on Cryptome, free for anyone with an internet connection.
a) Business Insider is a shitrag. Nonetheless, this looks like fairly straightforward reporting. I'll be happy to be disabused of the notion.
b) This is philosophical Turducken. Splendidly delicious, with only the finest ingredients, each bite is savory decadence: Irony, revenge and sharp ideology with a HOT FUDGE finish.
c) I take no positions on the various players, their motives, means or outcomes.
d) For entertainment purposes only.
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Also, looking at her stomach while squinting your eyes, there is a cherub sucking
Luminous Animal
May 2014
#12
Those will come in handy when you try to convince somebody of something.
Luminous Animal
May 2014
#36
WTF happened to her arm?! Holy hell!! I always liked Sporty Spice. I didn't know she was in an
Luminous Animal
May 2014
#7
And look over to her left shoulder. It looks like ET's head is poking out.
Luminous Animal
May 2014
#35
I guess you must have missed the major trauma when What'sername Spice left the group
pinboy3niner
May 2014
#16
Indeed. They posted a 7 minute video of the back & side of Greenwald's head. I'm not lying.
Luminous Animal
May 2014
#3
From the horse's mouth.. "Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break a law.”
Cha
May 2014
#24
And cryptome has the right of to raise $100K by posting 7 minutes of the back of Greenwald's head.
Luminous Animal
May 2014
#26
You should watch the 100K video. Riveting and totally worth a donation.
Luminous Animal
May 2014
#18
Cryptome was around long before Wikileaks, and in fact publicly eschewed Assange
msanthrope
May 2014
#47
We'll see won't we.. this is such delightful news, treestar. Someone.. John Young is messing
Cha
May 2014
#42
Strange you left this off from Greenwald..."I'M GLAD THERE IS A CRYPTOME AND HOPE THEY SUCCEED
Luminous Animal
May 2014
#38
Not "strange" at all.. the link is in the OP.. anyone can go there and read the rest and post
Cha
May 2014
#40
Harding wrote the better book by a mile, and that's because he is a better writer and
msanthrope
May 2014
#69
I'm sure that's true. But it's also likely that the vast majority of stolen documents are useless.
randome
May 2014
#54
"Worse, in Young's mind, is that they're allegedly profiting off of whistleblowing."
Number23
May 2014
#68