He has been fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload for 12 years.

Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload, has suffered a “serious stroke”, a post on his X account said Monday.

“I have the best health professionals helping me to make a recovery. I will be back as soon as I can. Please be patient and pray for my family and I,” the post said.

Dotcom’s lawyer, Ira Rothken, confirmed to The Associated Press that the contents of the statement were accurate. Rothken would not say whether Dotcom or someone else wrote the post and did not provide further details.

  • tekato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Do you think government employees should be able to break NDAs and publish state secrets without consequences? I support what Snowden did, but he is now a criminal and must be prosecuted as such.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      According to the US, torture is legal when it’s done by the US, which is a single example of how the federal US law does not reflect what is right, what is good, what is just.

    • CityPop@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      Do you think government employees should be able to break NDAs and publish state secrets without consequences?

      When it comes to government transparency? Yes, undoubtedly.

      The criminals are those in government, but they own the system and will never go after themselves.