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Originally Posted by Renatus
You could definitely make a Bond film from this whole situation. He could be a Charismatic hacker/whistle blower who is blackmailing governments of the world to stay out of his nefarious plans.
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First, the movie was already made - Tomorrow Never Dies. Its pretty much the same idea - a media mogul using his world media empire to threaten government officials to do his bidding.
Second, the reason it would never work in the real world is that you are assuming governments around the world can actually be embarrassed about things. That would imply they have some level of shame, which in todays world its safe to say you can't find that many that actually do.
Look at what has been released so far - innocent people arrested and/or assassinated, young boys pimped out for sex, governments lying about the reasons behind various wars...yet the governments involved have yet to even address any of these issues - their attitude is like 'so what are ye going to do about it?'
At the same time the right-wing nuts are spinning this and trying to use it as a reason to limit free speech, ignoring the facts that have been released and going after reporters.
No shame at all.