{"id":2703,"date":"2011-05-08T12:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2011-05-08T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T17:27:00","slug":"julian-assange-calls-facebook-an-apalling-spying-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/05\/08\/julian-assange-calls-facebook-an-apalling-spying-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange Calls Facebook an &#8220;Apalling Spying Machine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:344px;\"><span id=\"vvq-2703-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pyMLZUm6Q-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/pyMLZUm6Q-0\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/wikileaks-revelations-assange-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> that &#8220;Facebook is the most appalling spying machine ever invented&#8221; reveals that there is a lack of consensus among the leading social media developers regarding the relationship between transparency and social justice.\u00a0 Implicitly, Assange is asserting that transparency is good when imposed on governments but bad when imposed on individuals. Moreover, he is, arguably drawing a distinction, here, between cyber-libertarianism (which he rejects as, ironically, facilitating state surveillance and control)\u00a0 and cyber-anarchism (which uses the same tools to affect grassroots surveillance or &#8220;sousveillance&#8221; on the state and, thereby, diminishing its capacity to engage in covert, extralegal activities, potentially directed at its own citizens).<!--more-->Facebook did respond to Assange in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/kashmirhill\/2011\/05\/03\/facebook-responds-to-julian-assanges-spying-machine-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Forbes<\/em><\/a> interview saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We don\u2019t respond to pressure, we respond to compulsory legal process. There has never been a time we have been  pressured to turn over data \u2014 we fight every time we believe the legal  process is insufficient. The legal standards for compelling a company to  turn over data are determined by the laws of the country, and we  respect that standard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The <em>full <\/em>Assange interview is available on the <a title=\"Full Assange Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/wikileaks-revelations-assange-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia Today website<\/a>. The <em>abridged <\/em>interview streams below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:344px;\"><span id=\"vvq-2703-youtube-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6NsjehBfMF0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/6NsjehBfMF0\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange&#8217;s statement that &#8220;Facebook is the most appalling spying machine ever invented&#8221; reveals that there is a lack of consensus among the leading social media developers regarding the relationship between transparency and social justice.\u00a0 Implicitly, Assange is asserting that transparency is good when imposed on governments but bad when imposed on individuals. 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