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Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
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Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#132The US gov/Obama must be really pissed off he's trying to bring Clinton down (I hope it's obvious this wasn't just a UK-only decision - it's never been a UK-only decision to keep Assange sequestrated there anyway).
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#133From a Swedish perspective the Julian Assange case is particular close to the heart since it really shows how corrupt even our courts and politicians are. Sweden is rated as one of the countries with the lowest corruption but still 6 years have passed without even interviewing him for the pathetic accusations. The entire case is a joke and whatever the US-election result is, it's bad for the entire world since our co…
How do you suggest Sweden should interview him? Attack an embassy?
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#134A bit of an interesting dilemma in the spirit of transparency. Given an N-way race, do you just reveal secrets pertaining to one participant (since this may be all you have) or do you with-hold until you can reveal secrets from all participants?
Maybe they have no secrets?
I mean, the point of the DNC leaks is that they (the party) helped a specific candidate (Hillary) - even before she was elected a nominee - so they in essence acted undemocratically.
Unless you're speculating that the GOP was secretly sheming for Trump - something which I find extremely unlikely - then it's more than possible that any GOP leaks would in fact help Trump, as well!
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#135From a Swedish perspective the Julian Assange case is particular close to the heart since it really shows how corrupt even our courts and politicians are. Sweden is rated as one of the countries with the lowest corruption but still 6 years have passed without even interviewing him for the pathetic accusations. The entire case is a joke and whatever the US-election result is, it's bad for the entire world since our co…
How do you suggest Sweden should interview him? Attack an embassy?
Just go visit. He already agreed that it would be ok long ago.
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#136A bit of an interesting dilemma in the spirit of transparency. Given an N-way race, do you just reveal secrets pertaining to one participant (since this may be all you have) or do you with-hold until you can reveal secrets from all participants?
I've been struggling with this a lot. Granted it's pretty much all speculation, but if it is a state actor that is giving Wikileaks this information, and if said state actor was trying to influence the election, I question the responsibility of Wikileaks. It could also be (and I'm aware of this) simply that they're exposing information on "my" candidate, in which case maybe I'd feel differently if was the other way around.
I'm glad this was posted on HN, because I'm looking forward to a (hopefully) more informed discourse than I found on Reddit.
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#137- Is the whole embassy shut down? - Is there any direct reason for the timing (US elections, attack on Mosul or other current headlines)? - Was there any imminent release? (last week there was an announcement of a leak but it didn't materialize as far as I know) http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13159914/wikileaks-hillary... - You'd assume that Wikileaks the organization will continue to work even without Assange hav…
Weren't the Podesta e-mails the wikileak from last week?
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#138I had began archiving the /news and /newest because a lot of the Wikileak threads I was upvoting were disappearing into the ether . Seems they were getting mass-flagged/killed, this one survived. Also seems there has been discussion earlier today but the threads were mass-flagged off the front page. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722929 [208 points, 144 comments, buried] https://news.ycombinator.c…
:( I created the third post in the list ...
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#139From the bowels of 4Chan https://i.imgur.com/abcVS6q.jpg
Scary timing. So one possible reason this could be is to stop him from rallying the troops.
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#140From a Swedish perspective the Julian Assange case is particular close to the heart since it really shows how corrupt even our courts and politicians are. Sweden is rated as one of the countries with the lowest corruption but still 6 years have passed without even interviewing him for the pathetic accusations. The entire case is a joke and whatever the US-election result is, it's bad for the entire world since our co…
How do you suggest Sweden should interview him? Attack an embassy?
He's repeatedly offered to be interviewed in the UK (before he was jailed in the embassy), and Ecuador has offered (at least publicly) for him to be allowed to be interviewed in the embassy.