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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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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.
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Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
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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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In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.
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I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.
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All over the world the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out.
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Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
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To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
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Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.
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Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.
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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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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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I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
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