![]() Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg ( Schmitt ) report on the year’s activities, in “ WikiLeaks v The World: Free information, censorship, the media and you. This article goes on to discuss some of the early work of WikiLeaks - and why you have never heard of it (at that point in time).Ģ008 Dec 27 VIDEO (58:29) 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin The consequence has been a great shift from words pulled out of writers by reader demand, to words pushed out of writers by special-interest subsidies. When the system of ideas regained its economic equilibrium, unsubsidized words became unprofitable and were eliminated. Yet once electronic cut-and-paste came into play, the press release and similar content subsidies proliferated. The modern press release may have been seen as a blessing by the fourth estate, for it made certain ideas more profitable without making other types less. Paine’s truth appeared not only because of its coherence but because Paine subsidized its production above competing ideas. Thomas Paine had discovered the essential economic underpinning of the modern press release. ![]() Printers, happy with this state of affairs, preferenced its production over other popular, but less profitable works. Paine gave away his copyright to Common Sense -allowing printers to pocket the author’s fee. Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man was wrong. “In 1789 Thomas Paine, American pamphleteer, philosopher and revolutionary, compared the sun to the truth: “uch is the irresistible nature of truth,” Paine declared, “that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.” ![]() He refers to this article nearly two decades later, in 2015, soon after the Snowden revelations, when addressing the Commonwealth Lawyers Association on surveillance issues.Ģ008 Apr 29 TEXT “ The Hidden Curse of Thomas Paine by Julian Assange ” Everyone's overseas phone calls are or may soon be tapped, transcribed and archived in the bowels of an unaccountable foreign spy agency. ![]() The patent document specifically mentions "machine-transcribed speech" as a potential source.”Īssange, who already wrote a book with Suelette Dreyfus, is quoted as saying: The NSA's invention is intended automatically to sift through human speech transcripts in any language. The patent officially confirms for the first time that the NSA has been working on ways of automatically analysing human speech. The NSA patent, granted on 10 August, is for a system of automatic topic spotting and labelling of data. “THE US National Security Agency has designed and patented a new technology that could aid it in spying on international telephone calls. 1999 EVENT Assange registered the domain ‘’ġ999 Nov 15 TEXT Suelette Dreyfus “ Network: This is just between us (and the spies) ” ![]()
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