Court order seeks email of Wikileaks volunteer Jake Appelbaum

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203476804576613284007315072.html

by goodweeds • 15 years ago

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goodweeds• 15 years ago

https://uloadr.com/u/rA44.png to get around the wsj paywall.

aw3c2• 15 years ago

Seems like simply not allowing cookies will get you to the text too.

redthrowaway2• 15 years ago

The headline is a bit sensationalistic, if arguably accurate.

Edit for the downvoters: before it was modified, the headline read something to the effect of "US Government invades jacob Applebaum's privacy in continuing Wikileaks witch hunt".

safeaim• 15 years ago

What's untrue about that older headline? Isn't that exactly what's happening right now?

redthrowaway2• 15 years ago

I'm always suspicious of people who put conveying their emotional reaction to a story above getting the facts across. You see it on reddit all the time, and submitters hide behind the very justification you just gave. In the end, it lowers overall quality.

Good journalism is about more than simply truth. It's about professionalism and the appearance of such. Similarly, on HN I don't want to be browbeaten by people's moral judgements on any given issue. Give me the facts and I'll make my own judgements.

I happen to agree that the USG's actions against Wikileaks supporters are, if not extralegal, then certainly not in keeping with the ideals the US justice system is based on. That does not, however, mean that having headlines like that improves my experience on HN.

sage_joch• 15 years ago

The US government is becoming increasingly opposed to individual freedom (see: the DEA, the TSA, the NSA, its response to Wikileaks, its incarceration rates, its use of torture, etc, etc, etc). I'm glad there are still people like Jacob who will put up a fight against these infringements. So many people choose the path of least short-term resistance.

TruthElixirX2• 15 years ago

It has been opposed to individual freedom since it put down the Whiskey Rebellion. If people cared about personal freedom George Washington would have been hung for treason.

darklajid• 15 years ago

You intrigued me. Care to drop a couple of keywords that I could use in a search for my new quest to explore that history?

acabal3• 15 years ago

Exactly why I'm leaving as soon as I can secure a residency permit in my country of choice. While every country has its problems and there's no utopia, I'd rather live in a place that has no illusions about the realities of its flaws and rights.

You can't fix something if you don't even realize there's a problem.

udp• 15 years ago

Just out of curiosity, what's your country of choice?

naner• 15 years ago

Exactly why I'm leaving as soon as I can secure a residency permit in my country of choice.

I'm pretty sure this counts as "the path of least short-term resistance."

yread• 15 years ago

Well he would be crazy to use US based email providers for anything important anyway

danssig• 15 years ago

Amazing how far we've come, eh? Hard for me to reconcile the fact that I have to put US-based communications in the same mental bucket as China-based communications.

sneak• 15 years ago

It's been true since I first wrote it in January: http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110113/wikileaks/

PS: The PATRIOT Act which perpetuates this kind of idiocy is ten years old this month. It's time to leave America. I did!

FrojoS• 15 years ago

To where?

bh42222• 15 years ago

Switzerland

RexRollman• 15 years ago

Ah, the good old United States, where safety is more important than freedom.

ddw• 15 years ago

Funny thing is I don't even see how this makes us more safe.

Court order seeks email of Wikileaks volunteer Jake Appelbaum

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