#yashalevine — Public Fediverse posts

I don't think this #ChrisHedges interview with #YashaLevine got quite the response I expected it would from #Fedi when I first posted it. Which is strange because it's about how the #internet was specifically created as a tool for #surveillance.

And that includes things like #TOR.

I think the interview is certainly worth a watch.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-secret-military-history-of-the

#Fediverse #Web #WWW

The Secret Military History of the Internet
w/ #YashaLevine & #ChrisHedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1US6sxgKrc

"People compare #Trump to Hitler or to Putin. But for us the closest historical comparison is Boris Yeltsin.

"So today we talk to #JacobSilverman about Trump’s #shitcoins and other #crypto schemes because they remind us so much of 1990s Russia and Yeltsin’s family corrupt deals."

#TheRussians pod w/ #EvgeniaKovda & #YashaLevine

https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/shitcoins-for-shitocracy-wjacob-silverman
#USpol #MAGA #cronyism #cronyCapitalism #oligarchy #SiliconValleyRight #CryptoBros #tech #TechBros #DOGEbags #MoveFastAndLootThings

"We talk to our old friend Brett Forrest about his new book Lost Son and about the #WarInUkraine — which he experienced firsthand as a WSJ journalist stationed in Kiev on the eve of the invasion and reporting from #Bucha right after the Russian army retreated from there."

"#LostSon" with #BrettForrest

https://yasha.substack.com/p/lost-son-with-brett-forrest

#RussiaUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #RussoUkrainianConflict #Russia #Ukraine #books #FBI #espionage #AlphabetAgencies

#EvgeniaKovda
#YashaLevine

The third part is also notable for its framing of the internet's role in disinformation. Basically the net = the major #DataFarms (FB etc), and "regulation" of Silicon Valley = increased government control over internet speech (not #AntiTrust action). It's a framing I first noticed in the otherwise excellent Adam Curtis series '... Machines of Loving Grace ...', in #FredTurner's 'counterculture to cyberculture' discourse, and in a hit piece on the #EFF by #YashaLevine, published in the #Baffler.

@z428 @bjoern yes, when I see people like #YashaLevine attacking the EFF in left-wing publications like the #Baffler, and claiming that tech corporation are the real threat to our privacy (which they can be), and governments are its saviours (which is so obviously bullshit), I get very suspicious:
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine