Remember Justine Tunney?The OWS-anarchist-turned-cultist-Google-employee who bashed my
reporting on Google’s for-profit surveillance? Well, today she hit the
big time.
Occupy Wall Street leader now works for Google, wants to crowdfund a private militia | PandoDaily
Occupy Wall Street leader now works for Google, wants to crowdfund a private militia
Over the last few days, Tunney has been causing a Twitter outragetsunami after she took full control of the main Occupy Wall Street (OWS)
Twitter account, claimed to be the founder of OWS and then proceeded to
tweet out stream of ridiculous anarcho-corporatist garbage. She railed
against welfare, described the government as “just another corporation,”
argued poverty was not a political problem but “an engineering problem”
and told politicians to “get out of the way.” She also debunked what
she thought was a misconception: people thought OWS activists were
protesting against concentrated corporate power, and that, she claims,
is simply not true.
As I wrote before,
Tunney’s sudden epiphany that not all corporations are evil just
happened to coincide with her decision to take a well-paid job at
Google. Since then she has become an astroturfer par excellence for the
company, including showing up in a comment section to bash my reporting
on Google’s vast for-profit surveillance operation. “It never ceases to
amaze me how far people have to stretch in order to denounce the one
corporation that gives away everything for free,” she wrote.
It’s important to realize that, before taking her job at Google,
Tunney wasn’t just an Occupy foot soldier, but a prominent spokesperson
for the movement. She’s been written about in the New Yorker
and The Nation as one of the founding members of OWS in Zuccotti Park,
and was instrumental in setting up and running OWS’s main Internet
communication hub, OccupyWallSt.org. In media profiles, Tunney described
herself as “just another geek trying to help out with the revolution,”
and you can see her in photographs with other hi-tech revolutionaries
occupying a table in Zuccotti Park, hunched over laptops, wires and
computer gear.
