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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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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.
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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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True information does good.
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My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.
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Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.
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Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.
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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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It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.
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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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The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
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