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Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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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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There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
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There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.
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WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.
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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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Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.
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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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If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent if you farm or consume food if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.
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Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].
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And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
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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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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
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We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.
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You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.
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The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.
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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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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
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That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.
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Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
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