NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden made an unannounced virtual appearance at a TED conference in Vancouver this week. This time, Snowden’s appearance was enabled by a remote-controlled robot that featured his face on a large screen. RoboSnowden was interviewed by WIRED founder Chris Anderson, and”father of the internet” Tim Berners-Lee.
Via Graham Hancock’s facebook feed.
In attempt to brush up their severely tarnished image after censoring my presentation“The War on Consciousness” from the TEDx website today (on the grounds that I was “unscientific”) and also censoring the presentation “The Science Delusion” by my colleague Rupert Sheldrake for the same reason, TED have now rushed to create a remote corner of their website, which I imagine they hope no-one will see, where our talks have been put back online and may be debated: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/.This gesture, they claim, is in response to my suggestion that they had censored us and should be taken as evidence of their “spirit of radical openness”.
All I can say is this is extremely devious behavior on TED’s part. On the one hand they take down two videos from Youtube that had generated enormous public interest and traction (mine had received over 130,000 views and Rupert’s over 35,000 views).
