{"id":822,"date":"2014-12-01T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T07:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=822"},"modified":"2014-12-01T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T07:39:54","slug":"dont-deport-kim-dotcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Don’t deport Kim Dotcom!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"avatr\"<\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n

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Kim Dotcom, the larger than life character and \u00a0multi-millionaire philanthropist, is\u00a0under the threat of deportation to a country he has never been to – \u00a0the United States.<\/p>\n

The establishment have vilified\u00a0Kim Dotcom, when in reality he isn’t the monster they portray. When \u00a0his house was raided by \u00a078 armed police officers with enough firepower to fight a war, \u00a0the New Zealand public were sympathetic. The majority of the criticism aimed at Kim Dotcom is unwarranted and is really a smear campaign designed by the Prime minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

The mainstream media\u00a0focuses on \u00a0Kim Dotcom’s criminal record, but \u00a0the truth is these crimes are victimless. Kim proved his talent through his “crimes” to the German government and they awarded him a one million euro loan to establish a business.\u00a0 Kim\u2019s “crimes” involve hacking into the NASA mainframe to look for evidence of extra-terrestrial alien beings. He was convicted of 11 counts of computer fraud as a teenager over twenty years ago.<\/p>\n

If we analyse the current charges laid by the FBI they are exaggerated allegations of \u00a0online piracy, including racketeering, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, and conspiring to commit money laundering. Kim’s\u00a0Megaupload \u00a0is a cloud based file sharing company,\u00a0which\u00a0did not offer its customers copyright files. Some\u00a0customers uploaded those files against Megaupload policy. Megaupload also offered studios the take down notices to remove any copyright files.<\/p>\n

To explain how cloud sharing works, imagine a hundred million files in a cloud and each file makes up a particle of that cloud. To find a\u00a0 contaminated particle or a copyright file and take down the file is a needle in a haystack operation. Therefore Megaupload put the onus on the Studios to conduct their own investigation, as it\u00a0had no obligation to do another company’s\u00a0work. In terms of cloud storage this is entirely legal and the FBI charges lack substance.<\/p>\n

When Internet Mana toured the electorate of Te Tai Tokerau, Kim visited many Marae and appreciated New Zealand culture. On the night of the elections Kim was graceful in defeat and apologised to the Maori people.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0allegation\u00a0that Kim, in creating the Internet Party, was after retribution or Utu against\u00a0the National Party is\u00a0unfair. \u00a0Kim is under threat of\u00a0\u00a0deportation to the United States, to be locked up in a state penitentiary and eventually lose his family. What man in his position wouldn\u2019t do everything in his capacity to fight the system?<\/p>\n

The deliberate smear campaign at the direction of the Prime Minister\u2019s office is obvious, using pawns like Tova O”Brien and Brook Sabin to drive\u00a0a wedge between the public and Kim. Nasty attack bloggers like Jason Ede and Cameron Slater are protected from the shame they deserve. \u00a0The smear campaign, \u00a0focusing on Kim’s criminal records and \u00a0dredging up disgruntled employees, \u00a0over-exposed\u00a0Dotcom to the New Zealand public so they eventually got sick and tired of hearing about him.<\/p>\n

This strategy was executed to perfection, and the leadership of Internet Mana had no way of anticipating this outcome.<\/p>\n

Mana stands in solidarity with Kim Dotcom. The attacks on him are motivated by the Hollywood corporations who want to protect their profits, and John Key has willingly done their bidding. If the charges against him succeed, then anyone who tries to spread information that the establishment don’t want made public, by file-sharing or other means, is under threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder Kim Dotcom, the larger than life character and \u00a0multi-millionaire philanthropist, is\u00a0under the threat of deportation to a country he has never been to – \u00a0the United States. The establishment have vilified\u00a0Kim Dotcom, when in reality he isn’t the monster they portray. When \u00a0his house was raided by \u00a078 armed police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}