[ExI] wikileaks again, was: RE: Afterlife? - my very first post to the Extropians list, 1999

[Giulio Prisco]

Good to know that Julian was a poster here, I didn't know that. I will
search the archives.

I find it strange that he has been named an enemy of the state for
telling people the truth, whereas others who shamelessly lied to the
people have been treated, um, better.

Now I am expecting some heavy flames in the best traditions of the
good old Stone Age Internet.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:28 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>... Today I found by chance an important bit of personal history: my very
> first post to the Extropians list, on December 6, 1999... Giulio Prisco
>
> My early posts were in that time frame too Giulio, or a year or two earlier.
> Those archives are painful to read: the general internet atmosphere was much
> harsher and edgier then.  Manners and social graces from the real world
> hadn't yet figured out how to spill over into the digital world for the most
> part.  We now have a kinder and gentler internet.
>
> When I checked those archives from fourth quarter 99, I ran across three
> posts by Julian Assange.  I vaguely remembered he occasionally posted on
> ExI, but wasn't sure what he was about.  I recall he seemed to have had an
> extreme view on privacy, one that I found compelling at the time, but now I
> might have a more moderate view.
>
> Now he has made the news again, by being named an enemy of the state by the
> US DoD:
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/us-calls-assange-enemy-of-state
> -20120927-26m7s.html#ixzz27cjH9qSk
>
> spike
>
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