Kim Dotcom Suffers Stroke

[miskatonic]

A legend. I’m still amazed by how ahead of the time MEGA was with full in browser file encryption when the other players weren’t ever starting on that.

[bee_rider]

If nothing else you have to admire the balls it takes to fight the US for over a decade.

[CarpaDorada]

The article says Kim Dotcom is fighting deportation to the US. Isn't the right term extradition?

[jfengel]

Yes.

[piyh]

For such a controversial figure, he's directly created positive impacts in my life.

[voisin]

Please expand

[underseacables]

I hope he's OK, what a rebel, all the way back to the Chaos computer club. It's been enjoyable watching him fight Hollywood.

[brador]

Age 50, born 1974 for those curious.

[adamnemecek]

I used to root for this guy until he became pro-Putin.

[cynicalsecurity]

Okay, my hero lived long enough to become a villain. That's sad, but this happens.

Maybe he hopes for Russia to give me asylum? The KGB rule is much worse than he can even imagine though.

[pfannkuchen]

When you say pro-Putin, do you mean actually pro-Putin or just for ending the war in Ukraine?

At this point I feel like the people protesting the Vietnam war would be regarded by the current online zeitgeist as “pro-Mao”.

[moralestapia]

An increasingly common issue in this infantilized society.

"I'm not friends with Jacob because he likes celebrity A and I like celebrity B".

[claaams]

Yeah when he started simping for elon musk I do not care what befalls him. Mega was good for piracy back in the day, and maybe still is today.

[edm0nd]

Pretty weird how Hollywood corpos and lobbyists can convince the US government to prosecute a non-US citizen who's across the globe all while using illegally issued warrants to raid him.

[alsetmusic]

Even weirder how corporations are able to persecute US citizens for holding them legally accountable in other parts of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Class_action_l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Counter-litiga...

TLDR: a judge in the pocket of Chevron let their lawyers keep the lawyer who won a judgement against Chevron keep him in house arrest. The who case is a misuse of the criminal justice system.

[thefz]

It's like corporations are in control, not the people, right?

[Cody-99]

I'll never understand why people think being across the globe matters. Basically all internet crime can be done across the globe (plus tons of other types of crime like drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, etc).

Being in a different country doesn't give you free reign to commit crime.