The X account for internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom says he has suffered a “serious stroke.” He has been fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload for 12 years.

Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload, has suffered a “serious stroke”, a post on his X account said Monday.

“I have the best health professionals helping me to make a recovery. I will be back as soon as I can. Please be patient and pray for my family and I,” the post said.

Dotcom’s lawyer, Ira Rothken, confirmed to The Associated Press that the contents of the statement were accurate. Rothken would not say whether Dotcom or someone else wrote the post and did not provide further details.

  • @tekatoEnglish
    -12•1 month ago

    When it comes to government transparency? Yes, undoubtedly.

    Yes, that’s why there are avenues for whistleblowers. Publicly sharing classified information is not one of them.

    The criminals are those in government, but they own the system and will never go after themselves.

    What’s the point of this statement? So because we can’t prosecute some criminals we shouldn’t prosecute anybody?

    • @BuffaloxEnglish
      19•1 month ago

      avenues for whistleblowers.

      He tried those first, and only after nothing happened doing that, did he go public.
      To stay silent about illegal activities is actually complicity. So in principle it would also have been illegal to stay silent!

        • @BuffaloxEnglish
          3•30 days ago

          The paper states:

          As a legal matter, during his time with NSA, Edward Snowden did not use whistleblower procedures under either law or regulation to raise his objections to U.S. intelligence activities, and thus, is not onsidered a whistleblower under current law. He did not file a complaint with the DOD or IC IG’s office

          But what does that actually mean? When he actually went through the propper channels for his position? Department of Defense is a VERY wide organisation, and allegedly he did just that.
          Claiming he us not a whistleblower, because a VERY specific procedure needs to be followed is just a legal cop out. It’s an ambiguous law that can be used to burry shit indefinitely, and bent to be applied as they wish if people go public.

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/07/snowden-i-raised-nsa-concerns-internally-over-10-times-before-going-rogue/

          Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times …

          https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edward-snowden-didnt-email-surveillance-concerns-officials/

          “I actually did go through channels and that is documented,” Snowden said. “The NSA has records. They have copies of emails right now to their Office of General Counsel, to their oversight and compliance folks, from me raising concerns about the NSA’s interpretations of its legal authorities.”

          • @tekatoEnglish
            1•30 days ago

            But what does that actually mean? When he actually went through the propper channels for his position? Department of Defense is a VERY wide organisation, and allegedly he did just that.

            It means exactly that. File a complaint with the DOD or IC IG’s office.

            Claiming he us not a whistleblower, because a VERY specific procedure needs to be followed is just a legal cop out. It’s an ambiguous law that can be used to burry shit indefinitely, and bent to be applied as they wish if people go public.

            Here you are saying the same wrong information for the third time. He does not qualify as a whistleblower because be publicly leaked classified information, there’s nothing ambiguous about that.

            Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times…

            …Snowden said. “The NSA has records. They have copies of emails right now to their Office of General Counsel, to their oversight and compliance folks, from me raising concerns about the NSA’s interpretations of its legal authorities.”

            Right. He was able to copy millions of classified documents but forgot to get copies of the same emails that prove he raised concerns through the proper channels. This is the only email that there’s record of, and it was not even submitted by Snowden, but by the NSA.