I think SAP is referring to an external entity having an influence on a government's judicial process, not necessarily strictly private. Whether it's the US Government or a special interest group. Assange's case included.
I don't think that is the intended statement at all. Please reread this sentence:
> There's several cases, most notably Assange and [...] that indicate that private entities are putting pressure on governments, who in turn put pressure on their peers in other countries.
What can you do with 640x360? — better than VHS quality. Sure I'd prefer HD, but that resolution was good enough to enjoy films in my childhood, so seems a feasible start for this technology now.
Timeout isn't the only way. You could set a version variable on pageload, and have a conditional version check on init. If the versions match and localstorage exists, load from localstorage, if not, grab from the server and update.
There's some problems with this editor still and there's very few updates or comments in the forums, to the point where it seems like a dead, inactive project.
".mahalo()" which is the destroy method is non-functional in the current release, even though it in the documentation. Artifacts from pasting and x-browser is a bitch too. It looks promising, but it ain't ready for primetime, and don't expect get much support either.
I am sorry if you feel that there is few reaction on the forum. We try to improve that. If you have a look at https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/commits/dev/ you will notice that there is a lot of action going on and we are hard working on providing a better user experience with the beloved contenteditable. The probably most painful part of HTML5 spec and browser implementations.
The HTML5 spec unfortunately is very unclear in most cases ("the behavior is UA-dependent" - http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#user-editing-acti...). Eg. "Break block" is defined with 2 sentences, where we have more than 80 test cases and are far from complete https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/blob/dev/src/tes...
Though the next release (in a few weeks) should bring a better experience.
PS: mahalo() should work even with the very old stable version 0.9.3. Could you point me to a implementation where it doesn't work?