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Dotcom: Hounded by Hollywood

Discussing his fight against extradition to the United States, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom paints himself as a marytr, fed to the wolves by President Barack Obama as a sop to his Hollywood supporters after the administration failed to enact SOPA or the Stop Online Privacy Act. Dotcom also warns that the future of Internet freedoms are at stake as the US government and others around the world try to clamp down on the medium or use it as a tool for surveillance. More from RT America.

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Web Crackdown Coming?

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, sees storm clouds rising as governments around the world impose more pervasive and invasive controls and regulations to limit Internet freedoms. As an example, Wozniak cites the shutdown of Megaupload and efforts by US prosecutors to bring charges against its founder, Kim Dotcom. He also discusses WikiLeaks, the Arab Spring, hacktivism, net neutrality and many related topics in a far-ranging interview with RT, the Russian global TV network.

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