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Re:The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove by vidarh on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:44PM (#19401424)
The Intercept is nowhere near left-libertarian. Left-libertarianism is a strand of socialism (you'll find left libertarians spanning from anarchists and communists/libertarian Marxists to more moderate socialists), and the origin of libertarianism.

Here is the first left-libertarian, and anarch-communist criticising Proudhon for being just a moderate anarcist and liberal, rather than libertarian, and segueing into a rant against property rights:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joseph-dejacque-on-t...

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Re:The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove by ahoy on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:16PM (#19402561)
I was being imprecise, but I don't think we're ever going to finish arguing about categorizing the different strains of left politics.

I should have described them as "left of center w/ an emphasis on personal rights and privacy".

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Re:The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove by vidarh on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:19AM (#19420447)
I don't think people will finish arguing about that either, but in this case "left-libertarian" at least has a clear enough definition to make it clear that the Intercept is not it.

> I should have described them as "left of center w/ an emphasis on personal rights and privacy".

I don't know if I agree with this either, but at least this is close enough to be arguable.

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