Australian - Activist | July 3, 1971 -
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
Julian Assange
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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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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
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I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
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To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
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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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Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
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Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
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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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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.
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