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Rick Falkvinge
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Rick Falkvinge writes Falkvinge on Liberty, a personal blog at falkvinge.net about politics and culture. Since 2011, 167 different Hacker News readers have linked it 290 times, most often “Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Rick Falkvinge's posts as sources on copyright, NSA surveillance, child-porn laws and Mt. Gox, and a few call his articles good and point to the founder's blog.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- One commenter calls his articles good; another says to check out the founder's blog for the party's ideas.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-05-29
- Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-09-09
- Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-02-25
- The Gox Crater: Crowd Detectives Reveal Billion-Dollar Heist As Inside Job4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-02-28
- Bitcoin hits $3,000, or 1000x my entry point six years ago4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-06-13
- UK anti-encryption law4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-07-12
- The Target Value for Bitcoin is $100K to $1M4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-03-06
- Stasi vs. The NSA Back To Back: Who's Worse4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-07-05
- Debunking the Dangerous “If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear”4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-07-19
- Bitcoin's Vast Overvaluation Appears Caused By Price-Fixing3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-09-13
What Hacker News says?
http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/05/stasi-vs-the-u-s-nsa-back-to...
Comment linking /2013/07/05/stasi-vs-the-u-s-nsa-back-to-back-whos-worse-and-by-how-much/
on “President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet”Submitted ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39 as a story · 495 points
HN discussionIt's the typical Eastern European (or non-US centric) Internet. The IP laws make sense only if people have the capital to buy stuff. When I was a kid in a post-Soviet country, no one ever bought anything original (like a CD with a game). Everything was bootleg or pirated from the Internet. After [the US lobby started to push for copyright enforcement in the EU under the threat of sanctions]( https://falkvinge.net/20…
Comment linking /2011/09/05/cable-reveals-extent-of-lapdoggery-from-swedish-govt-on-copyright-monopoly/
on “Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate”Submitted UK anti-encryption law as a story · 356 points
HN discussionNot sure about the logistics but when the IE team announced that P3P circumvention "story" through a PR agency, it got me thinking that it's PR initiated. They are in the habit of hiring these firms: http://falkvinge.net/2012/03/02/how-microsoft-pays-big-money...
Comment linking /2012/03/02/how-microsoft-pays-big-money-to-smear-google-audaciously/
on “Why I Left Google”Submitted Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn as a story · 344 points
HN discussionOffline shops already track you via bluetooth and wifi https://falkvinge.net/2017/04/15/schiphol-airport-tracking-e...
Comment linking /2017/04/15/schiphol-airport-tracking-every-single-footstep/
on “Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More”Submitted Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal as a story · 305 points
HN discussionFWIW: What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright (2012): > Copyright must be reformed. We’d like to keep the copyright monopoly for commercial use (but with shorter, more sensible terms of protection). The big problem is that copyright has expanded in the past 20 years, going from being something that only corporations needed to care about, into something that criminalizes the entire…
Comment linking /2012/10/13/what-the-swedish-pirate-party-wants-with-patents-trademarks-and-copyright/
on “After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed”Submitted Dutch Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Links Censored Has Conflict of Interest as a story · 267 points
HN discussion"Right to read" http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-... (Related: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20069648-264/richard-stall... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Read ) Here's a lot more in the articles: http://stallman.org/#politics Edit: IFSO: Richard Stallman: The Dangers of Software Patents; 2004-05-24 (transcript) http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html Copyright…
Comment linking /2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-becomes-dreaded-insane-reality/
on “Richard Stallman Was Right All Along”Submitted EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation as a story · 234 points
HN discussionhttps://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-savin... You mean like Rick Falkvinge founder of the Pirate Party?
Comment linking /2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-savings-into-bitcoin/
on “MtGox.com is offline”Submitted Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And Police as a story · 218 points
HN discussionBarrett Brown is the first name that comes to mind. Julian Assange is arguably in the same camp, at least partially. There has also been a sentiment that Glenn Greenwald should be prosecuted for his role in the Snowden case, albit not by government officials. The US does not systematically persecute investigative journalists, at least not yet. But the sentiment is there, and there are cases that have crossed the lin…
Comment linking /2013/06/30/with-journalism-persecuted-the-united-states-is-now-at-event-horizon-to-a-police-state/
on “Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade”Submitted The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library as a story · 216 points
HN discussionFalkvinge, at: http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus...
Comment linking /2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-must-be-re-legalized-in-the-coming-decade/
on “Exhibit A – the “child pornographer””Submitted How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament as a story · 185 points
HN discussionOf course there’s a CEO. Here’s an official statement from him: https://falkvinge.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/letter-from...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2017/11/letter-from-the-ceo.pdf
on “Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale?”Submitted Behind the scenes of the Pirate Bay trial as a story · 170 points
HN discussionWhat about it? It is certainly detestable, and we should prosecute whoever produces it, but censoring is censoring. There are some good articles by Rick Falkvinge[0] that has been discussed here a couple of times[1]. 0: http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/11/child-porn-laws-arent-as-bad... 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495914
Comment linking /2012/09/11/child-porn-laws-arent-as-bad-as-you-think-theyre-much-much-worse/
on “Thoughtcrime”Submitted Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament as a story · 162 points
HN discussionIf you replace those words, then your analogy falls apart. http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus...
Comment linking /2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-must-be-re-legalized-in-the-coming-decade/
on “Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak”Submitted US government dictates Swedish copyright laws as a story · 133 points
HN discussionWas it here that I saw people lashing at Falkvinge for accusing US of spying on EU officials [1]? Ok, he didn't show any real proof at the time, but was it that hard to believe it would happen? I don't know about you, but I'd rather be paranoid than naive this time, especially since we have no idea what else NSA is hiding, and what's the real extent of their spying operations. It seems to me being naive would hurt m…
Comment linking /2013/06/24/the-united-states-wiretapped-the-mail-of-the-european-parliament/
on “U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks”Submitted Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin as a story · 116 points
HN discussionAh, the old `if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear` fallacy. I'll leave you with this - http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/19/debunking-the-dangerous-noth... ;
Comment linking /2012/07/19/debunking-the-dangerous-nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear&
on “Burner Phone”Submitted European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout as a story · 114 points
HN discussionSome light: http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
Comment linking /2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detectives-reveal-billion-dollar-heist-as-inside-job/
on “Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection”Submitted UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology as a story · 96 points
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