It goes into specific details that only someone who is linked into these events would be able to describe and recognize. Someone like Assange, before he was exiled. Of course most of these people aren't open about these kinds of things either. I'm very interested in how large tech companies are wielding their power politically, because they get to bypass borders governments cannot. We've seen this with multinational corporations for a very long time of course, but nothing with the capabilities like Google-when practically everyone is living with a smartphone in their pocket at all times, with all the data, big and small, that creates. I think despite his biases, Assange does a great job at capturing how this is currently evolving.

I found it interesting in the blunt way it described the connections between Silicon Valley and Washington politics; the way they are enmeshed and influence one another; the way one acts using the other as cover.

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Yeah, I've been browsing hacker news for about 3 years actually, but never felt an impulse to comment until now. Helps that I've entered a more political period of my life recently.

I will make sure to check in with you over the coming months and years to assure you I'm real :)

I make new accounts here all the time, and I've been posting on HN for 7+ years.

Why do you make new accounts?