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We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure. (Julian Assange)
When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations. View quote
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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. View quote
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The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation. View quote
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. View quote
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I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists. View quote
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You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in. View quote
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. View quote
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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. (Julian Assange)
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. View quote
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I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election. View quote
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These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. View quote
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. View quote
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. View quote
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. View quote
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Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new. View quote
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During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable. View quote
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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks. View quote
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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. (Julian Assange)
That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. View quote
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These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. View quote
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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. View quote
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. View quote
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