This seizure and corresponding arrests (one in Ireland, and one in the Netherlands) is a dangerous threat to liberty. WeLeakInfo was used by tons of legitimate security professionals. Once data is in the public domain, putting a search frontend on it should not be punished as a crime. Plenty of analysis of breach data has been done in public. Roger Grimes at CSO magazine openly admitted to trafficking 2GB of stolen password hashes to famed cryptographer Bruce Schneier -- the latter did a public analysis of the breach data. They're both criminals too I guess.

The idea that I should not be able to collect, trade, and analyze breach data with other professionals in the course of my work is ludicrous.

The world's top economists repeatedly said that Bitcoin could not possibly succeed and would never gain common traction. The ROI on Bitcoin was then thousands of percent. The world's top economists cheered on Greenspan et al as they caused the most significant loss of value in human history, with more wealth being lost in banking than has ever been made in the history of the sector. The world's top economists are now spewing drivel to try to support their tribesmen's latest moneymaking scheme: the gigantic academic debt bubble in which the US taxpayer guarantees the debt of future Starbucks employees while tuition prices have risen 170%, over 8 times faster than wages. It turns out that "world's top economist" is a code word for an active participant in systemic fraud against the useful and working people of the nations that are unfortunate enough to be infected by these evil parasites. A sane society would hold top economists liable for the losses that society incurs as a result of their lies. Shortly they'd leave for another country stupid enough to tolerate their presence.

Communism has had a wide variety of components over the years, but the international and rich who were always pushing it largely decided to remove the component of worker's rights from the formula (this is increasingly irrelevant with the march of automation anyways) and keep only the totalitarian, soul-crushing elements of cultural and social domination. Do some research into the Frankfurt school. Now in place of the worker you get a citizen of a borderless world, that should be entitled to anything and everything, regardless of their participation in the process of production.

Stallman is a genius and lives a life like an Diogenes or a wandering prophet.

Like many brilliant people who occupy that category, he has no sense of social graces. He writes down the things he thinks. He has virtually no theory of mind, no way to perceive how the people around him are going to react to what he says. In the past, that curse has granted us with great gifts as Stallman had the boldness and fool's spirit of being able to say and think things others would not. That granted us the entire ecosystem of free software, and who knows how decrepit the Internet would be without his contributions. At one point this guy had the entirety of gcc in his head. I can't even fathom the kind of brain that could do that.

The other half of this condition is that he doesn't understand a lot of the world. He has no idea how people relate to one another, how they communicate with one another. He'll eat something off his foot in public. He's affected by an extreme disability that puts his social abilities on par with many children of single digit ages. What the people are doing who just drove him out of the last corners of social prestige he had is bullying a disabled person.

As the United States and Europe become more Communist, far more people will be afflicted by the curse of saying things that the commissars disapprove of. Most of them are children, idly posting away on social media completely unaware that they destroy their futures. I know an autistic refugee that had academic grants cancelled because of something they said on Twitter years ago, when they were 16. Tanner Flake had a politically prominent father and said some off color things in video game communities when he was 9 and 10. Google will never forget it.

This is all so perverse. The people doing this stuff are pure evil.