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Our foreign affairs minister Uri Rosenthal made headlines today as he responded to some questions from two members of the Dutch Parliament. Do you agree [...] that the Netherlands will not cooperate with criminal procedures of the American authorities, such as in the case of potential suspects connected to Wikileaks. If not, why not? Answer: In case the US indicts mr Gonggrijp at any point in the future and requests his extradition, the request will be studied Click here for more… XS4ALL, the Amsterdam-based Internet Service Provider I co-founded in 1993, is offering a dialin service for people that want to get online from Libya, or any other country where despotic assholes are trying to turn off the internet. Use your modem to dial +31205350535, username xs4all password xs4all. Please use the comments if this number gets blocked and I’ll update with new numbers. For a very short time earlier this evening (Tuesday evening, sometime before 22:00 CET that is), our newspaper De Telegraaf reported that Sweden has dropped charges against Julian Assange. The article was on the site for at least a few minutes minutes before disappearing again, and all someone mailed me was a screenshot of the link from the front page to the article. So what we have is the headline “Sweden drops charges Assange”, the Click here for more… Sorry to bother you all with something so mundane after all these big events. But life goes on after all. There’s this article in the dutch press today which covers a provincial candidate for the PVV (the party of Geert Wilders). He’s a cop (or maybe ex-cop, the article doesn’t say) that in 2003 got a fine for beating a suspect that was already in handcuffs. But it’s not that fact that bothers me enough Click here for more… I have received e-mails and comments from what must be almost everybody that knows me, pledging worry and support. Thank you all, even if I haven’t gotten to answering every mail. People also ask how I am doing. I am OK. This is a bit stressful, yes. I especially hope the media side of things gets a little quieter. But I’m really holding up, so please don’t worry too much, OK? Some rather bizarre developments here in The Netherlands. Monday there was an extensive article (PDF, dutch) about me in De Telegraaf. De Telegraaf is the newspaper with the largest circulation and it leans to the right politically. In it, they describe all the developments with the court order to Twitter. More interestingly, the article features me as “Julian Assange’s adjudant” as well as ”a left-wing terror activist” with “close ties to the Chaos Computer Club who in Click here for more… Dear journalists, Yet again I am being inundated with your e-mails, text messages, phone calls and unannounced house visits. (The latter is new, unwelcome and the fastest way to get a non-expiring entry on my media blacklist.) I could easily spend all my time answering the same questions with the same answers instead of taking some time to think for myself. This is not your fault. I can see there’s a story here and you need to Click here for more… It’s a warm and fuzzy feeling to know that somewhere, far away, people are thinking about you. Last night I received this rather interesting e-mail from twitter: Kessel, Jan-07 11:20 am (PST): We are writing to inform you that Twitter has received legal process requesting information regarding your Twitter account, @rop_g. A copy of the legal process is attached. The legal process requires Twitter to produce documents related to your account. Please be advised that Twitter Click here for more… Right here exactly five years ago Frank Rieger and myself held a lecture that was called “We lost the war”. It was about how we felt the fight over privacy and wider civil rights was going. For those of you who weren’t there: it wasn’t a very happy story. It was at the height of the post 9/11 paranoia. It was a done deal that the whole EU was going to have data retention Click here for more… In an interesting twist, they are now claiming that Alex Halderman and myself were apparently “issued visas by mistake”. GVV Sarma, joint secretary (foreigners) at the ministry of home affairs, said the duo was initially denied entry because of violations of visa terms they had committed on an earlier occasion. “They had come earlier on a tourist visa, but were involved in activities that could not be considered tourism,” Sarma said. The home ministry had asked the Click here for more… Now that was interesting. As I arrived at Delhi airport yesterday I was detained for over 12 hours. My friend Alex Halderman had arrived earlier and was being held at the airport also. (He had almost been stuck on a flight back to the US right before I got there.) This was apparently all at the request of some part of the Indian intelligence community. I was asked questions to find out “what had gone Click here for more… Dear journalists of the world, I’m not a regular Wikileaks staff person, never was. Don’t have the stomach for it. I have done work for Wikileaks, last when I helped produce the Iraqi helicopter video in late March, early April. Raffi Khatchadourian of The New Yorker has done a piece on what transpired during a hectic time in Reykjavik if you want to know more details. I do not do interviews (on or off the record) about Wikileaks because I Click here for more… |
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