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Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com)
Alexandra Valencia, reporting for Reuters: Ecuador's government acknowledged on Tuesday it had partly restricted internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks who has lived in the South American country's London embassy since mid-2012. WikiLeaks said Assange lost connectivity on Sunday, sparking speculation Ecuador might have been pressured by the United States due to the group's publication of hacked material linked to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In a statement, Ecuador's leftist government said WikiLeaks' decision to publish documents impacting the U.S. election campaign was entirely its own responsibility, and the South American country did not cede to pressure from other nations. "In that respect, Ecuador, exercising its sovereign right, has temporarily restricted access to part of its communications systems in its UK Embassy," it added in a statement. "The Ecuador government respects the principle of non-intervention in other countries' affairs, it does not meddle in election processes underway, nor does it support any candidate specially."
Assange should have signed up for the unlimited plan.
Link please.
Link?
And the educated voters vote for... Trump?
Link please.
See you need a link therefor uneducated
There must be more than one pathway to the internet from Ecuador.
preventing the distribution of information relevant to the candidates, Ecuador effectively allows the influence to be heavily one sided.
Specifically, the side that filters, and releases only approved material in order to promote their candidate.
The only way we truly know who the candidates are is when we have access to information about how they think and act when they believe no one is looking.
Everything else, is just for show.
Personally, I don't care WHO digs up the information. Hackers, Private Investigators, whatever.
It does boil down to this: If you're going intelligently elect a leader, you need to know all there is to know about them. There can be no secrets.
A little wiring and duct tape and he's good to go.
Too bad that that actor was sponsored by the same state that gave him protection.
Just shows how deep corruption and collusion runs internationally.
See you need a link; therefore, uneducated.
It's like having someone stay over and he starts pissing in the neighbor's yard.
As the host, it's up to you to keep him in line or kick him out.
A little wiring and duct tape and he's good to go.
Few people know that MacGuyver was based on the real-life exploits of Julian Assange.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I'm one of the many many much educated people that went to college and I'm a engineer - BS Engineering Technology in Small Engine Repair from Hillbilly State, NC.
These slghts against us Trump supporters ain't doing anybody no service.
He's got an incredible platforms. He's gonna somehow build a wall and somehow make Mexico pay for it.
He's gonna somehow repeal the H1-b laws - by ordering Congress to do it.
And by Jesus, he knows so much about the Bible, he knows about passages that no one else knows!
And the law too! Why, he knows how to do things as President that are beyond the powers of the President. He's gonna get powers of all 3 branches of government and combine them into the POTUS and make government more efficient - like the genius businessman he is!
He's so smart, before he was even born, he chose rich parents to be born to. How's that for smarts!
And, someone was dumping on a Republican candidate, and, they clamped down on his internet, the media and 3/4 of the /. users would be screaming "free speech" all over the place.
With WikiLeaks (likely) out of play, whoever has been sending WikiLeaks the Democrats' data will either have to find another channel for release, or stop releasing. In the former case, that may give intelligence agencies a better idea of their target.
I wonder if there was a back-channel conversation with Ecuador -- something like "Whoever is behind this, Ecuador is effectively acting as an accessory to some outside party attempting to alter the US presidential election. Is that *really* how you want us to treat this?"
When you learn information about Hillary that she doesn't want you to know, it's called election interference. You people out there need to know your place and learn to just do what your designated leaders tell you. When they want you to know something, they'll tell you.
At least Ecuador cutting off Assange's broadband has absolutely nothing to do with his texting pictures of his dick to an 8 year-old.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You Trump spinners, hoisted by your own past bullshit.
Remember when Assange leaked all about the Bush war on Terra with the diplomatic leaks? And the collateral damage video?
Hannity: Assange should be arrested. United States should “go after” Assange and “arrest him” for “waging [a] war against the U.S.”
New Gingrich: Assange is a terrorist and an enemy combatant.
Fox News Bob Beckel excoriated Assange for leaking the State Department cables that have roiled the world in the past week, and said that American special forces should kill him....“A dead man can’t leak stuff,” Beckel said. “This guy’s a traitor, he’s treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I’m not for the death penalty, so...there’s only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch.”
The conservative Republican media WANTED ASSANGE MURDERED to censor him. They are not defenders of free speech, they don't defend journalism, they call them terrorists and demand they be murdered.
If he used vi this wouldn't be a problem, he'd be able to do all his work just fine over a 300 baud acoustic coupler!
On a serious note I still don't get what the big deal is, as even if for some reason he's not allowed to use obvious things like 3G, surely all he needs to do is co-ordinate things with other wikileaks staff over the phone?
From a diplomatic perspective its probably the right call for the equadorian government - haveing a person under their protection affecting the US election would be seen as interferance And of course they can use this as an example of diplomatic condut when they next have an election...
You are a ganious
(Apparently she doesn't have an account, though, because she was posting as AC.)
Rapping children.
This is why spelling is important!
Assange is in the Ecuadorian embassy-- technically part of Ecuador-- in Great Britain.
Neither one of these contries use the United States Constitution's bill of rights.
He could at least offer to share the utility bills. I mean the security costs for the embassy have risen a lot due to him being there, part of the broadband cost is the least he could do...
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I suspect that while the most vocal and prolific posters on Slashdot seem to be pro-Democrats
I haven't notice that.
I'd like to see statistics.
, the vast majority of silent readers are more pro-Republicans.
That was an argument originally made by Richard Nixon! How can you disprove that the "silent majority" favored him, when they're silent? The really great thing about that argument is that it is supported by the absence of facts: you're pointing to the silence as support for what you say.
It must get lonely living in an embassy for years. Then again, there's a world full of actual adult women that you can do this with without getting into trouble.
A lot of smoke around some people's online hero. 8 years old? Jeezuz, that's gross.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I wasn't aware he was accused of rapping on pre teens, isn't that more of a kanye west thing?
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Assange says : "State Sponsored Actor cut my Internet". You Trump supporters then came out screaming that the NSA had done it to protect Hillary, and did your 'rigged' election speeches.
Yet he could simply hand a memory stick to a friend and get around that, or his friends could lend him a 3G phone, or open an access point nearby.
Assange played you. Where is his October Surprise? He promised some big secret that would turn the election, and put Trump in the Whitehouse. Yet the emails he leaks are dull as dishwater. You lot don't keep quoting the emails, because she goes on and on about trade and finance, and peace and climate and b-o-r-i-n-g stuff that politicians talk about.
Presumably 'grab their pussy' Trump is more to Assange's liking and that's why he wants him in the Whitehouse, but he doesn't have an October surprise. He only has a lot of innuendo and misdirection. .... "State Sponsored Actor is trying to stop me leak my amazing leaks...."
preventing the distribution of information relevant to the candidates, Ecuador effectively allows the influence to be heavily one sided.
And, pray tell, which "one side" are we talking about?
Wikileaks is leaking material only stolen from the Democrats, not anything stolen from Republicans.
That's one sided, by definition.
Actually, I'd very much be curious to see equivalent material stolen from the other side.
"The Ecuador government respects the principle of non-intervention in other countries' affairs, it does not meddle in election processes underway, nor does it support any candidate specially."
That's kind, and much more than can be said about the U.S., and their attitude towards you and other South American countries.
I just knew this article would provoke stimulating and well thought out ideas, in a non-partisan way.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
If you haven't been reading the Podesta leaks, then we can't help your ignorant and non-involved ass. Go educate yourself or shut the fuck up.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
What the fuck is wrong with you.
I've got mixed feelings on this.
They are all dirty- Trump, Clinton, and Assange. We all know about Trump and Clinton.
Assange is trying to strike out against a particular candidate, with stolen materials, which are unverified, and seeking some sort of revenge. So has become a defacto participant in the election process- as a foreign actor.
No matter how you dice it, everyone is dirty.
Ecuador on the other hand says: "Assange is trying to influence a foreign election from our embassy and we do not want to engage in that activity".
The only people with principles in this American election- are apparently Ecuador. How sad is that?
Another consultant who stuck it out.
"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
Here is hoping once the election is over the number of paid verbatim talking points posters for the DNC/Hillary campaign will drop off here and the level of discourse will return to the old days. They are going to have to do better than repeatedly the false talking against Wikileaks coming out of the DNC establishment if they want people to believe their propaganda. I know we went through this before the the R establishment in the Bush years but not to the volume that we are seeing from the other side.
Is that useless election still not over? How long does it take to decide which muppet's cronies are going to plunder the country for the next 4 years?
You act as if it really made any difference to you. Seriously, do you really care which thief is going to rob your home? You're not the one who is going to receive the loot, so why bother?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yes, however the reason that Ecuador feels the need to thumb their noses (by offering refuge) at the US is that they are a little angry about the US meddling in Ecuadorian affairs, least of all their own government processes. By allowing Assange to do the same with the US election they would be seen as a bit hypocritical. By not allowing, or more accurately by *publicly* not allowing they are taking the moral high ground, not only thumbing their collective noses again, but drawing to attention the afore mentioned fact. I wouldn't be surprised if they were fully aware of what he was doing and this was all planned out in advance (or at least they took proper advantage of the situation as it evolved).
Slow golf clap. wp.
You voted for Obama, you got the "unlimited government" plan.
How's that working out for you?
Obama's government doesn't just cut off Assange from the internet help it's succession, it does drone strikes to kill US citizens, it works with the press to embargo criticism.
And a whole lot of other things corrosive to democracy and freedom.
But, hey, it's PROGRESS!!!!!.
Yay.
Vote Hillary! and get more of the same.
>Link please.
https://www.wikileaks.com/
I believe it was compliant and unaware voters. A differnce without distinction except to those who do not know how to properly use google.
Go to a Trump rally and advocate for liberal causes, see how quickly you get assaulted, chances are its going to be damn fast.
Just saying.
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Now that Trump risks loosing the election because some prudes don't like him being rude in private the Ecuadorian government must be getting affraid of the tried and tested concepts of an "orange revolution","spring" or just a simple coup organised by the CIA on a command of Hillary.
Trolls don't necessarily adhere to the views they espouse.
maybe your sarcasm meter needs adjustment.
I did a google search for the source of that quote. Just one hit. So, as far as I can tell, Hillary originally said that in a slashdot post on October 13, 2016: https://science.slashdot.org/c...
(Apparently she doesn't have an account, though, because she was posting as AC.)
I googled for "hillary wikileaks compliant uneducated" and, eventually, ended up here. It's an email from someone named "Bill Ivey" at globalculturalstrategies.com talking to John Podesta about how to deal with Trump's celebrity and TV air time. There's a quote in there about unawareness and compliance:
And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly.
Not a quote from Hillary, but a quote from a discussion her campaign manager had with what is presumably a consultant firm they use for strategizing.
As always, context is key.
First, that quote came from Bill Ivy, in an email to John Podesta -- this is not Hillary's statement, and there's no indication of whether or not she agrees with or condones that statement. So, while it's a rather ugly sentiment, to declare that it's reflective of Hillary's position, absent other data, is impossible.
Second, the comment is made in the context of counteracting Trump's strong presence in the media:
What he is lamenting is the strategic position the campaign finds itself in: for so long, their strategy has been to "demean government and drop civics," and the result is an electorate that takes Donald Trump's positions about government and civics seriously.
Given the repeated condemnations I've seen here in the past few years of the intelligence and critical thinking ability of the average US voter here on Slashdot, I wouldn't think this to be a controversial statement. What he is noting is that both political parties have been happy to cultivate unthinking and obedient voters, and now, when they need the voters to actually do some critical thinking... they're having difficulties with it.
I actually give him high marks for that comment - he's willing to declare that their strategy has failed them, and needs to change such that the political conversation turns back to actual civics once more.
Or were you just knee-jerking because he used the word "conspire", and Trump 2016 has taught you that knee-jerk reactions are the best way to govern?
https://archive.fo/VApsq
Looks like that site is run by Hillary's PAC and is otherwise shady as hell. You can't really expect us to believe that nonsense can you?
Ecuador has made their endorsement very clear.
Ecuador is for the Clinton Crime Family.
Ecuador should have stayed un-involved, as opposed to this spin from Ecuador (you guys suck at this).
Ecuador how does it feel having the taste John Kerry's balls in your mouth?
Therefore I say, if the owner of a house knows that the thief is coming, he will begin his vigil before he comes and will not let him dig through into his house of his domain to carry away his goods. You, then, be on your guard against the world. Arm yourselves with great strength lest the robbers find a way to come to you, for the difficulty which you expect will (surely) materialize. Let there be among you a man of understanding. When the grain ripened, he came quickly with his sickle in his hand and reaped it. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.
You're overlooking the endgame.
These people got plenty of practice from quote mining scientists' statements in the "Climategate" emails.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
(5) Labor certification and qualifications for certain immigrants
(A) Labor certification
(i) In generalAny alien who seeks to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor is inadmissible, unless the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General that—
(I) there are not sufficient workers who are able, willing, qualified (or equally qualified in the case of an alien described in clause (ii)) and available at the time of application for a visa and admission to the United States and at the place where the alien is to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, and
(II) the employment of such alien will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the United States similarly employed.
No, Mr Robot used a Pringles cantenna to hack a WiFi network from across the street. In the new MacGuyver a Pringles can was split in half with several mobile WiFi chips taped to it to disrupt a WiFi network.
The interesting thing is that this is truly a Kang v. Kodos election. Sure one is less bad than the other, but they're both terrible by historical standards. This is the election where a minor party would have a chance and yet...here we are.
Is a very painful process to go through. It gets easier in time, but a person won't improve by hiding in a safe space. This is what our Universities are getting money to preach. Since MSM media and large businesses repeat the same message, it's being reinforced all the time.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
That's a link to Wikileaks's front page, not a link to a "compliant and uneducated voters" statement.
Googling for the phrase "compliant and uneducated voters" only comes up with this comment, presumably also by you.
As for your "there would be riots in the street", your people are talking about rioting in the streets. Not just riots, but outright coups if Hillary is elected. On camera. And your candidate is deliberately whipping them up to this with all of his repeated "shadowy conspiracy stealing the election with massive fraud" talk.
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
Yet the world was silent when the Obama Administration provided US funds to Israeli opposition election campaigns to oust Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
The full quote is:
"Uneducated" does not appear in there.
So, let's get this straight: the "scandal" here is that some nobody third party, rambled to someone - not Hillary, just to her campaign manager - that he's concerned that Clinton won't be able to get people to pay attention to "poll-driven, demographically-inspired messaging" when Trump is a "Kim Kardashian mold" entertainer spouting "hairbrained ideas" every day, and you can't get the news cycle to "default to policy" in such an environment. I can't make heads or tails of what that "compliant" remark is supposed to mean, but in general I think we can draw one clear conclusion: Hillary is clearly a demon, and we must elect Cheeto Benito instead.
#Risottogate
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
If you have not been paying attention, the only ones that have been instigating violence are Hillary and ex-Bernie supporters.
It appears that you think he was recommending this result rather than criticizing it.
Read it again out loud.
You might want to look into that smear a bit more:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/hillary-clinton-linked-mysterious-front-associated-julian-assange-pedophile-smear
Why is the UN partnering with porn sites, anyhow? What kind of cam girl lets her 8 year old sister go on camera? And just why is this fake porn site / UN partner nobody has ever heard of using the same registered agent as various Democratic groups?
> Why nothing about Trump?
The man has no filter, so any stupid things he thinks get said in public, so anything you could find in his private emails isn't going to be any better than what you can find on his Twitter account.
That said, feel free to leak something to them about him. They don't create the leaks, they just distribute them. If you want some leaks, go make them.
If you haven't been reading the Podesta leaks, then we can't help your ignorant and non-involved ass. Go educate yourself or shut the fuck up.
russian fiction is long, boring, and let's face it, FICTION
What is selective about releasing all of Podesta's and HRC's emails? I would understand your argument if we had only seen some carefully curated emails to match some carefully curated narrative but that is not the case here. Instead, the emails themselves are painting the narrative. No intervention required.
So again, what is selective about this?
The election is not rigged against the Donald. If anything it has been rigged for him.
Even a 2nd grader can see the bias in the press against Trump. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.
Obviously Ecuador is meddling in the US election, but if they hadn't they'd be truly unique among nations. I'm not mad at Ecuador (or Russia if they were the source of leaked info) for hacking or disclosing this that and the other. I expect it. It's just some bits on disk somewhere. It's not like they shot a missile at us. That sort of think occurred long before the Internet, it's just less risky and at greater scale these days.
I just hope to high Heaven that our secret intelligence services have the capability to do the same.
Loser. Total loser.
Basically, this guy had a rough childhood and got bounced around. This man is talented, but weak and very misguided.
It is also apparent he is not fond of women questioning him. And I would very much like to hear more about these rape charges in Sweden. If he is innocent of that crime, why not face justice?
This man is neither brave or very smart. He reeks of ambition.
The interesting thing is that this is truly a Kang v. Kodos election. Sure one is less bad than the other, but they're both terrible by historical standards. This is the election where a minor party would have a chance and yet...here we are.
The wrong lizard might get in if we voted other than (R) or (D).
Sad that the US's crowning achievement is to copy a side-gag from a sci-fi/comedy novel, even knowing beforehand it's a failed strategy as that's the joke.
People have lost so much trust in their fellow citizens (rightly or wrongly) that they don't believe it is possible for enough people to make good choices for anyone other than an (R) or (D) candidate to have any chance.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Ecuador is a very nice place and is known to not listen to retards like the United States .
Your CNN MSNBC FOXNEWS brain can only see the western propagandized version of "how sad is that?" As if the USA was ever actually a crusader of peace.
Go to a Trump rally and advocate for liberal causes, see how quickly you get assaulted, chances are its going to be damn fast.
Just saying.
Yeah you are saying you are a Bigot and a Racist. The very thing you claim you hate. Except when it suits you not to be, like all liberals.
every bit as manipulative as the control of what we know. It's two sides of the same coin.
Many "fact checkers" pretend to be unbiased by controlling the things they do NOT "fact check", and by choosing not to consider certain facts in their analysis that would change the results from the desired outcome.
Sorry Ecuador, but by cutting Assange's access you have become complicit in the Clinton campaign's effort to have a public image that is quite different from their actual actions and activities, and to hide this from the public.
The simple solution to the Wikileaks "problem" for dirtbag politicians in ALL parties is simple: Stop being dirtbags. Stop lying to people. Stop hiding stuff that is not directly tied to the security of the nation.
He's always lying. He's a Jew, everything they say is a lie. This makes it easy to tell if he's lying, if he's speaking it's a lie. If you don't understand this you've never talked to Jews before.
My god he's denied saying things he's on video saying, you can't be a bigger Jew than that.
Does that include Sumdumass cause that guy.....ugh...such a fucking dumbass...
Read my comment just above. The quote specifically came from an email from Bill Ivy to John Podesta.
There's a good run-down of the actual commentary and full context over at snopes, too.
Trump loosed the election long ago. Had he held on to it, he'd have a prayer of winning it.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes