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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
Business Executive
Computer Scientist
Film Producer
Hacker
Internet Activist
Journalist
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Television Director
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Julian Paul Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.
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Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
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During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
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When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.
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I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.
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[Let's talk about] Donald Trump. What does he represent in the American mind and in the European mind? He represents American white trash, [which Hillary Clinton called] 'deplorable and irredeemable'. It means from an establishment or educated cosmopolitan, urbane perspective, these people are like the red necks, and you can never deal with them.
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The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
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You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
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Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.
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I don't like the word transparency cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
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Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.
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I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.
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It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.
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If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.
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The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
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Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?
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Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.
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