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Glenn Greenwald
Personal blog · glenngreenwald.blogspot.compolitics
Glenn Greenwald's personal blog at glenngreenwald.blogspot.com covers politics. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2007, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Glenn Greenwald's blog for his commentary on government surveillance, executive power and tech censorship. Commenters discuss his political writing and his past positions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I remember reading Glenn Greenwald in the 2000s when he was railing against the expansion of executive power under GWB. > But the same individuals peddling this theory are simultaneously objecting quite vigorously to the notion that they are bestowing George Bush with the powers of a King. Bill Kristol and Gary Stevenson, for instance, called such claims "foolish and irresponsible" in the very same Washington Post O…
Comment linking /2005/12/do-bush-defenders-place-any-limits-on_22.html
on “DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data”Submitted Glenn Greenwald (2005): The Reality of Latin American Reaction to Bush as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>> Greenwald has been posting some antimigration articles messages using language that skims very close to hard-right wording >That’s an inflammatory claim, that needs direct quotes/links to be taken seriously. But lest it be forgotten that there has long been an acceptance among traditional left-wingers (including Bernie until it became unacceptable to too many of his followers) of the need for some immigration con…
Comment linking /2005/12/yelling-racist-as-argument-in.html
on “HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach”Submitted Glenn Greenwald: If this be treason (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOnly put something in quotes if the person actually said it. Sam Harris never claimed the Iraq war was noble or well-intended. He never supported the Iraq war, though Greenwald initially did. From Greenwald's preface in How Would a Patriot Act? [1]: > I believed then that the president was entitled to have his national security judgment deferred to, and to the extent that I was able to develop a definitive view, I a…
Comment linking /2005/11/myth-of-international-wisdom.html?m=1
on “Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Silicon Valley Censorship [video]”He selectively reports and focuses on things that support a conclusion that Trump is amazing, the rise of fascism is real but it's actually from groups like liberals and the CDC, and anything telling you otherwise is a liar. For instance, he focuses on where the guy got the zip ties but totally ignores the constructed gallows on the lawn or that a guy in military fatigues literally broke into the capitol. He focuses…
Comment linking /2005/12/yelling-racist-as-argument-in.html
on “Congress demands tech CEOs censor the internet even more aggressively”
