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"Wikileak's job is to take people's secrets and show them and who's hiding them to the world." Here we see the again the conflation of organizations and indivi
by Lagged2Death 16y ago
"Wikileak's job is to take people's secrets and show them and who's hiding them to the world."
Here we see the again the conflation of organizations and individuals in an opinion piece connected to Wikileaks. Why does this happen so regularly?
I don't know anything about Appelbaum, but it's perfectly possible that he believes in personal privacy and institutional transparency, a not particularly radical, surprising, or unusual stance which would resolve this "conflict of interest" perfectly.
- borism 16y agoI'm tired of this argument as well - it also goes something like this: "Assange has founded Wikileaks, so how dare he oppose leaking details of his alleged sex crimes trial!?"