I'd prefer to ignore that pathetic man full of himself but without the substance . What better to leaving him alone in that? Anyway, there will be others. The real question is how WE respond next time and distinguish real whistleblowing and press freedom from political sabotage.
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I should note that I do not forgive Wikileaks' role in publicizing the home addresses of millions of women in Turkey. People celebrating him as some sort of hero of press freedom are endangering press freedom by equating press freedom with reckless endangerment of innocents.
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I’m not a lawyer but this is also what concerned me reading the indictment.https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/1116387389637718016 …
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Yep. Tried to pressure my editor, too. “Wikileaks” ended up blocking me on Twitter when I wouldn’t stop pointing out they were making harmful and false claims about the content they hosted and promoted. (Like verifiable as lies in a minute kinda lies)https://twitter.com/feralrobots/status/1116406882036584448 …
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So US plan is to end Assange’s self-imposed no wifi exile & turn him into an attention magnet with a CFAA (which he clearly violated — no real journalist offers to crack passwords) indictment mentioning important journalistic practices, forcing principled actors to defend him.
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Exactly correct. The huge story was not “what’s in these emails?” It was “who hacked and released these emails and why?”
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We don't know each other but a big fan of your work - am sure you've seen (and many people have pointed you to) the job posting at Columbia J-school; no idea if you'd be interested, but would be great to have you as a colleague here on Morningside Heights!
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So ur saying it’s Wikileaks fault we have trump and not the dnc being a corrupted institution that cheated beenie and pushed a war mongerer corporatist?
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This. The question is not why someone like Assange would dive deep into Hillary's campaign, but why he *only* dove deep into Hillary's campaign. A true
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fwiw I'm not nearly enlightened enough to opine on whether Assange and WL committed a crime on the release of docs back in 2010, but my opinion of both is highly colored by what occurred in mid-2016
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