Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-11 Thread Frank Rieger
Dimitry, just for the record: I don´t speak for the CCC here. And the "both sides" strawman you are creating is just trying to obscure the problem that "the ends justify the means" is not a long-term viable concept for both ethical and practical reasons. Idolizing an imperialist and oppressive s

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-11 Thread Frank Rieger
> On 10. Jan 2021, at 22:56, Dmytri Kleiner wrote: > > Meanwhile, the “old left” we made fun of, the “authoritarian” and “out of > date” mostly brown and yellow “Tankies” of the world, like the Communist > Parties of China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, the “pink tide” in Latin > America, Marxi

Re: Little Atoms > Robbins > the myth that British data scientists won the election

2017-02-01 Thread Frank Rieger
There is one hypothesis that the various "this can all not be true"-pieces are ignoring: It might as well be that the "trait"-based social media manipulation techniques work best if applied to dissuade people from going to vote, but make little difference when applied with the goal of encouraging p

Re: The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of celebrities

2016-06-10 Thread Frank Rieger
The "court of social media opinion" has certainly demonstrated now its inherent unsuitability often enough. Thanks & Greetings from Berlin, Frank Rieger # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collabo

Re: Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Rules for the digital world

2014-03-11 Thread Frank Rieger
re sometimes when it fits their business interests. We are deep inside a multi-front power struggle with shifting alliances and neither the government nor the internet ogliopolies are on our side. btw: I read Enzensberger as satire. Greetings from Berlin, Frank Rieger --- On 10.03.2014, at

Re: wikileaks followup hackerleaks launched

2011-07-04 Thread Frank Rieger
The technical "foundations" of this hackerleaks.tk as of today look dangerously flawed and short-sighted. It is slapped together with some hot-glue scripting from of several existing services that are not all meant to stand up to serious attack (both technical and de-anonymization). The hackerleak