And as I twatted,* clearly these kind of people should DEFINITELY not be burdened by having to show probable cause to a judge before accessing our full scale digital biography.
The half-written post on sex and sex work will have to wait for now . . .
*That is the correct conjugation, SHUT UP.
Hey, if you have any thoughts on the current wikileaks thing, I'd be really interested to hear them. Although as it is 200,000 pages, I'm just going to wait on an analysis from... oh, god, I don't trust anyone. Counterpunch maybe?
ReplyDeleteUh, do I have thoughts, like how? On the entire document dump and the fact that Wikileaks is the greatest thing a democratic society could hope for (and, that would be my opinion right there . . . ), or on the analyzing of the documents themselves? I don't have the time or training to analyze the documents themselves - I don't know enough about military operations. I'm just a chick in law school who knows a bit about counterterrorism law and international humanitarian law (law of war). Oh, and international human rights law.
ReplyDeleteANYWAY. I trust Marcy Wheeler, Spencer Ackerman, and Glenn Greenwald. And the folks at Obsidian Wings.
Hmm, thanks for those names! I'll have a look now.
ReplyDeleteHngh, it's some dark reading. My (un)reccommendation is searching for some horrible terms and then marvelling at the frequency they appear. I think it's pretty disgusting that wired are taking this line against the leak, as well as the whitehouse's squirming - playing down the scale and severity of the leak, while condeming whistleblowers as irresponsible...covering up war crimes is the responsible thing to do?
ReplyDeleteHere's the best visualisation of the data I've seen so far. It gets scarier and scarier.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/interactive/2010/jul/26/ied-afghanistan-war-logs