Cryptome’s critique of Snowden Inc.

Re:Cryptome’s critique of Snowden Inc. by ryanlol on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:28AM (#11175489)

Nobody familiar with cryptome takes it seriously. While some of the data they host is incredibly useful, original content tends to be a joke.

Just read the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome#History 2015 section (especially the archived sources) and draw your own conclusions.

IMO these guys are far beyond Alex Jones level.

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Re:Cryptome’s critique of Snowden Inc. by gherkin0 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:57AM (#11175745)

> Cryptome was created by John Young and Deborah Natsios, both highly successful architects.

Regarding their Cryptome's style: it's my understanding that architecture was one of the first disciplines to heavily take up postmodernist philosophy, and postmodernists are known for their ponderous and impenetrable writing style. So Cryptome's writing may just be postmodernist.

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Re:Cryptome’s critique of Snowden Inc. by semiel on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:40PM (#11176609)

I'm moderately familiar and comfortable with postmodernism, and Cryptome still seems bizarre to me. It's not word salad, like some people in this thread imply, but it's not clear to me that we're supposed to take it as serious analysis either. Part of Cryptome's game seems to be riding the border between insight and absurdity.

EDIT: It's definitely a postmodernist writing style, though. You're right about that.

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