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Hotspot Vigilantes Are Trying to Beam the Internet To Julian Assange (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the great-lengths dept.

Ecuadorian government said earlier this week that it did cut off Julian Assange's internet connection. They noted that Assange's continued interference in the U.S. election campaign was the reason why they decided to disconnect Assange from the internet. But it appears some people are going to great lengths to beam internet connectivity to Mr. Assange. This week 4chan urged people to head to the embassy to set up mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, and many are doing just that. From a Motherboard report:"We are now calling all BRITS to get their ass down to the embassy and stand around in mass, taking shifts with wifi-hotspots on hand!" reads the post. "Give Assange constant network and morale support all while streaming it live for the world to see." Are people actually going to try this? Motherboard UK visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed political asylum since August 2012, today to find out. Admittedly, on a late October afternoon, things were rather quiet on the street outside the embassy. Nevertheless, I found my guy. "Marco" was loitering outside the embassy, turning on and off his mobile hotspot. I approached him, and while tentative at first, Marco finally started explaining how he was hoping to aid Assange.

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  1. Re:Phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Right after listening to trump you can except your IQ to drop.

    May we presume from your post that you've been listening to a LOT of the ol' Donald? Because it's hard to believe your IQ is naturally this low, yet you retain autonomic nervous function.

    The president doesn't make arrests, or punish law breakers that is the judicial branches job.

    No, he's not out serving warrants personally. But the many law enforcement agencies that *do* make arrests are overseen by the Dept of Justice, which is part of the executive branch. In addition, prisons are also run by the executive branch, again, by the DoJ. And as the president, he runs the executive branch, and appoints the various cabinet members (for instance, the motherfucking ATTORNEY GENERAL) who will run these federal departments.

    The FBI works for the department of Justice not the executive branch.

    /facepalm Dumbass, the "Department of Justice" is *part* of the executive branch. It is NOT part of the judicial branch.

    to stupid to know

    TOO stupid to know.

    married three times and his known to have cheated

    IS known to have cheated.

    arogant,

    ARROGANT

    When he said he would jail Hillary shows a blast disregard

    What is this I don't even?

    between tin pot doctors of fascists countries

    Mind explaining what the fuck a tin pot doctor is?

    Look, I'm with your supposed point: Trump is awful, nobody should vote for him. But your screed against him is so laughably full of inaccuracies and complete idiocy that I have to wonder if you're not somehow going meta and trolling us by presenting what you think a liberal would have to say.

    8/10, would read again.

  2. Re:Phone by Rei · · Score: 1, Informative

    Have you not heard this guy speak? Just to pick one example of the hundreds of him acting as Putin's personal apologist.

    --
    "99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
  3. Re:Phone by Gussington · · Score: 1, Informative

    or is it something that, just like the DNC hacks merely ascribed to Russia with zero evidence offered?

    Er, there is evidence, even if you choose to ignore that fact:
    https://www.wired.com/2016/07/...
    http://www.esquire.com/news-po...