segunda-feira, 15 de abril de 2013

Hacktivists as Gadflies


http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/hacktivists-as-gadflies/

In a world in which nearly everyone is technically a felon, we rely on the good judgment of prosecutors to decide who should be targets and how hard the law should come down on them. We have thus entered a legal reality not so different from that faced by Socrates when the Thirty Tyrants ruled Athens, and it is a dangerous one. When everyone is guilty of something, those most harshly prosecuted tend to be the ones that are challenging the established order, poking fun at the authorities, speaking truth to power — in other words, the gadflies of our society.

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1 comentário:

bea disse...

O mundo nunca foi benévolo para quem arrisca estar do lado da verdade. Ou sequer para quem a procura. Sobre todas as coisas.

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