The X account for internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom says he has suffered a “serious stroke.” 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.

  • ouch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12912·
    5 months ago

    I would suffer a stroke and more, too, if my country wanted to deport my ass to a third world country like the USA.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      762·
      5 months ago

      The legal process in USA is not trustworthy, it’s been shown time and again that USA punish people with extreme sentences to make an example of them. USA even tried to kidnap Kim Dotcom bypassing normal New Zealand procedure.

      I have no particular sympathies for Kim Dotcom, but the way USA behaves in cases of “national interest” is scary.
      Never forget Aaron Swartz! Who was driven to suicide, for copying data he had legal access to.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          Absolutely, why wasn’t she ever prosecuted? Why is it legal for a prosecutor to threaten to ruin peoples lives and put them to jail indefinitely?
          Basically all they had on him, was trespassing at the most!!

    • daddy32@lemmy.worldEnglish
      273·
      5 months ago

      Oh come on. There are definitely some people that ruined many lives and - from a certain point of view - would deserve death, but he is not one of them.

      • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        39·
        5 months ago

        He did ruin many lives tho. + he his a fascist crap 😬

        He litteraly had employees he told not to move to punish them if I remember right. And that is one of the most soft bad thing he did.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          5 months ago

          I have no love for KdC.

          I would like to see some sources there, as I remember him getting arrested, and as far as I remember, the worst he did was piracy, hosting of piracy, and potentially illegal dissemination of patents. Oh and possibly hosting some potentially illegal VPNs

        • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          Wishing death upon someone because they are a libertarian (or hold whatever other opinion you disagree with) is trashy