Read moreConcerned about Google’s complicity with the NSA, the Indian government plans to ban the use of Gmail for official correspondence. The matter has also become a key issue in the run-up to the German federal elections in the third week of September.
Google is fast developing a reputation as a rogue company that pursues its own agenda at the expense of the rule of law. At the time of writing the Dutch data protection authority has published a ruling that outlaws Google Analytics – a decision that mirrors bans by Germany and Norway. Google has simply refused to offer a lawful contract.
Earlier this year Sweden banned public sector use of Google’s cloud services over privacy concerns, while France and Spain have ruled that the company is operating unlawfully in those countries.
It is now becoming a momentous task to document all the findings against Google by trade and privacy authorities, but the true threat posed by the company goes much further than mere transgressions of law. Google is now claiming immunity from the law itself.
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You’ve just spent five weeks in limbo, stateless, living in the interzone of an airport terminal.
Your rival for Technomad Citizen#1 was under “house arrest” in the country estate of a sympathetic aristocrat.
Fleeing the might of the Empire, he’s now residing in the diplomatic safe zone of a South American embassy, from which he conspired to break you out of Hong Kong with the power of the network and the voodoo magic of temporary papers he conjured up with his host, hacking Authority.
You’ve been granted a solar year of asylum in the bounds of the Russian Federation, formerly trading as the Evil Empire ™. Anna Chapman has already proposed to you. You can regroup at an undisclosed location of your choice. You literally left paradise when you began this journey. You are a massive geek, and are well aware that it would be an easier and less perilous to take a rocket to the ISS, than travel anywhere else on Earth.
Maybe you make this your temporary base of Bond Villain operations.
(You definitely aren’t still part of the Company. This isn’t a massive psyops action.)
Read more“The trick, Will Scarlet, is not minding being beaten by everyone you recruit as you form a team.”
Just endured commercials to watch this. Some random thoughts:
* Merry ole England is the principal example of Uchronia, so nice example of that here.
* see also: Noblesse Oblige. Robin protects the little people from the Usurper until the return of the Good King.
* ergo it’s a tale of Counter Revolution, preemptive variant. Much talk of the people being free… without escaping the bounds of Feudalism.
* thus it’s a rebellious folk tale that only strengthens the defense of the Empire. Or: ontological warfare
* Marion something Privilege something Renaissance something Troubadours something French Viking Power
* folks who put on tights today and stand up for what’s right are Real Life Superheros (aka Reals).
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 