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Not sure how I feel about this. I'm against censorship but he basically set himself up at the perpetual mercy of Ecuador. Their house, their rules. Conversel

by mey 10y ago

Not sure how I feel about this. I'm against censorship but he basically set himself up at the perpetual mercy of Ecuador. Their house, their rules. Conversely in passive observation, wikileaks has had a pretty clear agenda in timing, materials and communications over the last few months.

contingencies 10y ago
Wikileaks can only work with the material they have been given and have always tried to maximize it's impact as part of their enabling role as a publisher. I don't see how in this regard temporal optimization differs from timed release, proxy release or fundamental analysis (such as statistics), all of which they have offered in the past. As for 'agenda', this is like saying the organization has a 'purpose' - to quote their about page: "the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption".
- HillRat 10y ago
  There is the troubling fact that emails tracing the flow of funds from Syria to Russian banks vanished from the "Syrian files" email dump sent by hackers to WikiLeaks, despite the fact that the hackers considered those the Crown Jewels of their data exfil. WL has never explained why they didn't publish those emails, though they did blame the press for reporting what they called Hillary Clinton's "neo-McCarthyist conpiracy theories," which was ... somewhat nonresponsive to the allegation.
  - contingencies 10y ago
    {{citation-needed}} ... http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-russia-bank-2-billion/ http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-r... claims the source of this rumour is "leaked US court documents" of "Manhattan" that are "sealed" (as if they were authoritative on information in the possession of hackers and their thoughts) ... the article's two authors asked Wikileaks for comment, Wikileaks said this "is speculation and it is false". The journalists in question work for a b-grade US populist rag, and the US routinely monitors all international financial transactions via the SWIFT system, and has done so since at least 2001 (official letterhead response of the EU to a FOIA I made), as well as credit/debit card systems, Western Union, etc. Given this background, draw your own conclusions.

by mey 10y ago

contingencies 10y ago

Wikileaks can only work with the material they have been given and have always tried to maximize it's impact as part of their enabling role as a publisher. I don't see how in this regard temporal optimization differs from timed release, proxy release or fundamental analysis (such as statistics), all of which they have offered in the past. As for 'agenda', this is like saying the organization has a 'purpose' - to quote their about page: "the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption".

HillRat 10y ago
There is the troubling fact that emails tracing the flow of funds from Syria to Russian banks vanished from the "Syrian files" email dump sent by hackers to WikiLeaks, despite the fact that the hackers considered those the Crown Jewels of their data exfil. WL has never explained why they didn't publish those emails, though they did blame the press for reporting what they called Hillary Clinton's "neo-McCarthyist conpiracy theories," which was ... somewhat nonresponsive to the allegation.
- contingencies 10y ago
  {{citation-needed}} ... http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-russia-bank-2-billion/ http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-r... claims the source of this rumour is "leaked US court documents" of "Manhattan" that are "sealed" (as if they were authoritative on information in the possession of hackers and their thoughts) ... the article's two authors asked Wikileaks for comment, Wikileaks said this "is speculation and it is false". The journalists in question work for a b-grade US populist rag, and the US routinely monitors all international financial transactions via the SWIFT system, and has done so since at least 2001 (official letterhead response of the EU to a FOIA I made), as well as credit/debit card systems, Western Union, etc. Given this background, draw your own conclusions.