Re: <nettime> nettime-l Digest, Vol 121, Issue 28

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:00 AM, <nettime-l-request@mail.kein.org> wrote:

Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to
nettime-l@mail.kein.org

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
nettime-l-request@mail.kein.org

You can reach the person managing the list at
nettime-l-owner@mail.kein.org

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of nettime-l digest..."

Today's Topics:

1. Collective responses to digital neofeudalism (AllanInfo)
2. from today's Washington Post - how to we resist this?
(Alan Sondheim)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:43:17 +0200
From: AllanInfo <allan@allansiegel.info>
To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org
Subject: <nettime> Collective responses to digital neofeudalism
Message-ID: <c7ad29be-68cc-420d-b84c-41f73e559843@Spark>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hello,
Collective responses to digital neofeudalism
http://www.eurozine.com/collective-responses-to-digital-neofeudalism/
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?How has the digital dream of the 1990s ? equality, freedom of _expression_ and accessibility for everyone ? turned into the constantly surveilled dystopia that many observers comment on today? New media expert Evgeny Morozov and sociologist Colin Crouch discussed this digital dilemma at the recent Lector in Fabula festival, in conversation with journalist Marina Lalovic.

cheers
allan

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mx.kein.org/pipermail/nettime-l/attachments/20171018/617cc7f7/attachment-0001.html>

------------------------------

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:52:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: nettime-l@kein.org
Subject: <nettime> from today's Washington Post - how to we resist
this?
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.21.1710182151281.18554@panix3.panix.com">alpine.NEB.2.21.1710182151281.18554@panix3.panix.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

The fascist creep in action:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Wednesday that he reserves
the right to jail journalists, if we have to.

Here's his exchange with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) during a Senate Judiciary
Committee hearing:

KLOBUCHAR: Will you commit to not putting reporters in jail for doing their
jobs?

SESSIONS: Well, I don't know that I can make a blanket commitment to that
effect. But I would say this: We have not taken any aggressive action against
the media at this point. But we have matters that involve the most serious
national security issues, that put our country at risk, and we will utilize the
authorities that we have, legally and constitutionally, if we have to.

Maybe we we always try to find an alternative way, as you probably know, Sen.
Klobuchar, to directly confronting a media person. But that's not a total,
blanket protection.

There is a lot of missing context here that Sessions would have been wise to
include, if he were interested in avoiding panic.

Sessions appeared to be reiterating a warning he issued in August, when he said
that as part of the Justice Department's effort to prosecute government workers
who make illegal disclosures of classified information, one of the things we are
doing is reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas.

[...0

========

------------------------------

# distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
# <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
# collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
# more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l

End of nettime-l Digest, Vol 121, Issue 28
******************************************