Ed Snowden

Discussion Of Wikileaks Or ‘Hacked Information’ Banned Under New YouTube Rules

August 17, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. Educate! Ed Snowden, Media, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks, YouTube

Social media giant YouTube announced yesterday a host of new measures it says are aimed at preventing any interference in the upcoming presidential elections. Chief among the list it wrote on its blog, is “removing content that contains hacked information, the disclosure of which may interfere with democratic processes, such as elections and censuses.” An example it gives would-be deleting “videos that contain hacked information about a political candidate.” It also promised to “raise up authoritative voices” when it comes to current events and politics by changing its algorithm to show users more credible channels and “reduce the spread of harmful misinformation and borderline content.” Example channels that produce authoritative content, it tells readers, includes Fox News and CNN. It also noted it would expand information panels underneath videos.

Snowden Archives At Great Risk—As Alarming As Assange’s Arrest

April 19, 2019 Cathleen McGuire and Colleen McGuire, Popular Resistance Educate! Ed Snowden, Glenn Greenwald

Billionaire Pierre Omidyar, the owner of the Snowden archives through his company, First Look Media, has shut down the analysis, release, and custodial care of the archives claiming lack of funds. Since 2013, only 10% of the documents have been published. The decision was made just this past March 2019, with the full participation of Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, star journalists with The Intercept, one of First Look Media’s various properties. International outrage erupted over the kidnapping and rendition of Julian Assange. Yet, why aren’t those who are enraged by this egregious violation of press freedom not up in arms that the Snowden archives are privatized, and that the preeminent owners, Pierre Omidyar and Glenn Greenwald, have conspired to withhold their contents from the public. The kidnapping and rendition of the Snowden cache demands a similar hue and cry.

‘State of Surveillance’ With Edward Snowden & Shane Smith

June 12, 2016 Vice, , www.news.vice.com Educate! Ed Snowden, NSA, Suveillance

For VICE. The full episode of VICE on HBO's 'State of Surveillance' is available to stream for free on VICE News. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of massive government surveillance programs in 2013, he ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security. That debate came to a head this year, when Apple refused an FBI court order to access the iPhone of alleged San Bernardino Terrorist Syed Farook. Meanwhile, journalists and activists are under increasing attack from foreign agents. To find out the government's real capabilities, and whether any of us can truly protect our sensitive information, VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation, Edward Snowden.

Anti-War Activist Ciaron O’Reilly: Conventional Protests Are ‘A Dead End’

January 12, 2016 Joshua Robertson, www.theguardian.com Resist! Anti-war Movement, Chelsea Manning, Ed Snowden, Julian Assange, Wars and Militarism

By Joshua Robertson for The Guardian - A quarter of a century has passed since Ciaron O’Reilly, with a sledgehammer and a bottle of his own blood, took his first tilt at the US war machine. The Brisbane-born man served what is believed to be the longest jail stint for a civilian protester on US soil during the first Gulf war, over a New Year’s Day sortie by a band of Catholic peace activists into Griffiss air force base in New York in 1991. He poured blood on a runway from a bottle bearing pictures of Iraqi children and smashed up the tarmac till his hands were blistered, while his cohorts did the same to the engine of a B-52 bomber on standby for raids in the Gulf. O’Reilly served 13 months in jail, which nearly broke him at first.

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