>And Kaspersky agreed to appear in a documentary that used his son’s abduction as a prime example of why social networks are dangerous. Those are facts that neither he nor I can avoid.
It's sinister that Kaspersky appears in a documentary talking about privacy concerns? Shachtman's really grasping at straws.
It's sinister that he's using it to argue that access to the Internet needs to be tightly monitored and controlled, especially as we're talking about Russia where (for instance) if people couldn't use the Internet to broadcast messages that were hard to trace we wouldn't have all gthe photographic evidence proving massive ballot-box stuffing and electoral fraud in the last election that we do have.
It's sinister that Kaspersky appears in a documentary talking about privacy concerns? Shachtman's really grasping at straws.