printOther than for who will be missing from the event, the “South by Southwest (SXSW)” festival of “technology and innovation,” held in Austin, Texas, holds little interest for this scribe.
The three mighty men who’ll be absent from the venue that was “the launching pad of Twitter and Foursquare” are men who’ve truly used technology to advance the cause of freedom.
“Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, along with Glenn Greenwald, the journalist to whom he leaked his trove of classified government documents,” are scheduled to attend SXSW … but via videoconference.
“If Mr Assange and Mr Snowden were to set foot on US soil, they’d likely be arrested immediately for crimes against national security,” informs BBC News.
Sounds tyrannical to me.