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.
A friend of the late Aaron Swartz blames the federal government for driving the computer programmer, hacker and activist to commit suicide last week. “The idea that an agent of the federal government would be able to pick out a person and threaten to ruin their life is not the kind of thing that we hope for in a justice system,” says Parker Higgins, an internet activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Swartz helped create the web syndication process RSS. He also was instrumental in founding the popular social media site REDDIT and organizing the successful campaign against the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA). He was facing up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for downloading more than 4 million academic articles from the database JSTOR. H/T Reason.TV
