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New Zealand to Extradite Kim Dotcom to US

  • #New Zealand
  • #Extradition
  • #Crime & justice
  • #Computers & internet
New Zealand to Extradite Kim Dotcom to US
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AUG 2024
Above: Internet Party leader Laila Harre, Kim Dotcom and Glenn Greenwald speak to the media following revelations about New Zealand's mass surveillance at Auckland Town Hall on September 15, 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand. Image copyright: Hannah Peters/Staff/Getty Images News via Getty Images
story last updated AUG 2024

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

That New Zealand has finally approved the US extradition request for Dotcom is a victory for justice and underlines the independence of the country's legal system. The flamboyant internet fraudster was the architect of a vast criminal enterprise, as indicated by the previous guilty pleas of two of his associates. With the New Zealand Ministry of Justice's decision, the largest copyright trial in US history is now set for a happy ending, and the case proves that there is no hiding from the long arm of US jurisdiction.

ABC news

Establishment-critical narrative

The witch hunt against Dotcom proves that he is right in calling New Zealand a US colony. Similarly to the Assange case, the US is trying to punish the internet mogul for standing up for freedom of expression and using his popularity to criticize the corrupt and hypocritical US empire openly. Now, the entrepreneur is facing extradition to a country he has never set foot in, and where he can't expect a fair trial. The case is politically motivated, marking the latest example of the US justice system's bankruptcy.

RT International

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