I'd feel a lot better if this article was from almost any other news site. RT is not known for being fair or balanced when it comes to anything involving the USA.
And please distinguish between the long-term goals and values of the USA and the craven personal interests of its present rulers. In pieces I've read and seen from RT, they've often honored the former while excoriating the latter. Which is something I wish an American news source could do. I'll know it's possible as soon as I see a single example.
has the ACLU and the same guy if that makes it more legit.
The 10 zetabyte storage capacity estimate is based on building size. I think we need more details.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247829
"> The source of the submitted article, rt.com, is not known for careful journalism.
"Understatement of the year."
It's worth asking why no other media organization has run with this story.
How much other media covers EFF efforts in general for example? You are right - practically nobody does it.
Hardly. The warrantless wiretapping thing was all over the news when the story broke. So was SOPA (which serves to completely destroy this canard on its own; as the media companies had a direct interest in supporting that law yet still reported on the controversy.)
This, plainly, isn't newsworthy outside of tech circles yet.
A conference where people talk about deploying packet shaping gear is not newsworthy outside of a very niche circle. Yet.
So that's a good thing then right? If they are critical they are more likely to present topics without sugar coating them? They don't have to fear American advertisers pulling adds off the air, they don't have to fear not being invited to the White House news room and having access to govt related press releases.
Now when it comes to Russia related news, that's when I found they are painting a picture completely divorced from reality.
And in general that is also true with other news media. Like Al Jazeera. They are pretty good and factual except for stuff happening in Qatar. Which is unfortunate but also expected.
> It's worth asking why no other media organization has run with this story.
I think if you read Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" book you'll get an answer to that question.
Well I don't think they made this guy up. I don't they exactly spliced the dialog to change the meaning of what he is saying. I think this guy is real. So that +1 for RT reporting on the story (the truth).
Quite the contrary. RT is pretty well balanced when it comes to USA. A lot more so than Fox or CNN say.
RT is not balanced when it comes to Russia though.