Suzie Dawson is an awesome example of someone who has taken their own life experiences of pain, humiliation and presumably devastation, and become such a powerful voice for justice. Thanks for posting this Rayzer... important to get out this message. Regards, Zenaan On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 08:33:48PM -0700, Rayzer wrote:
A pretty good rundown of how social disruption works. ...
Lots of links and embedded images of tweets etc in-post... Read online: http://theindicter.com/the-weaponising-of-social-part-1-the-crucifixion-of-i...
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The Weaponising Of Social Part 1: The Crucifixion of IOError
by The Indicter
Thanks to a small group of supposed anonymity-protecting privacy activists thousands of people now know the name of Jacob Appelbaum’s fiancée`. Even those that didn’t want to.
We found it out by reading an extremely controversial website launched a week ago, that had a few sparse accounts of some nasty sounding happenings allegedly involving Jacob, with promises of more to come.
No one truly concerned with privacy issues should care if Jacob has a fiancée let alone who she is, out of respect for his right to a private life and because it is patently obvious that attacks on him shouldn’t extend to her.
Her name was later removed after the bulk of the damage had been done, without any editorial admission that it had ever been there in the first place.
Unfortunately, that simple yet far-reaching invasion of privacy, is only the tip of the iceberg.
[Update 12/06/16: Detractors are claiming the above is factually incorrect as they say Appelbaum is no longer engaged. The source was the smear website itself, which named Appelbaum’s ‘partner’, then removed her name and called her his ‘fiancée’, and now implies past tense. IMO, who he is or isn’t engaged to is frankly his own business. The point stands.]
Preamble
In a strange paradox, Jacob Appelbaum’s accusers both want to deny any relevance between their accusations and him being a known target of the US government as a result of the nature of his work, while having the clearly stated aim of wanting to prevent him from being able to continue it. ...