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It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.
Julian Assange
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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.
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Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
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If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.
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Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you
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Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.
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A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.
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Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.
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What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
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That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.
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[Hillary Clinton] had put her favoured agent, Sidney Blumenthal, on to that there's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya.
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People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.
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I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
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If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.
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Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.
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If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.
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Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
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Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
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So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.
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The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.
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