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> Assange and Wikileaks dumped the entire set of files, without redactions, while the Guardian, Der Spiegel, NYTimes were spending time and resources trying to

by k1m 6y ago

> Assange and Wikileaks dumped the entire set of files, without redactions, while the Guardian, Der Spiegel, NYTimes were spending time and resources trying to redact them Sorry, this is plainly false. This article and the testimony of people involved with Wikileaks (see Craig Murray's reporting for that) show that Assange was actually incredibly careful and diligent in redacting. It was the newspapers that were eager and impatient to publish. It was a Guardian journalist's recklessness that let everyone see the unredacted cables, not Assange's.

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nojito 6y ago
This is blatantly false. Wikileaks released personally identifiable information for numerous at-risk groups around the country. To this day, those files are still available. https://apnews.com/article/b70da83fd111496dbdf015acbb7987fb https://apnews.com/article/b70da83fd111496dbdf015acbb7987fb >In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality can lead to social ostracism, a prison sentence or even death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom. >The AP independently found three dozen records pertaining to family issues in the cables — including messages about marriages, divorces, missing children, elopements and custody battles. Many are very personal, like the marital certificates that reveal whether the bride was a virgin. Others deal with Saudis who are deeply in debt, including one man who says his wife stole his money. One divorce document details a male partner’s infertility. Others identify the partners of women suffering from sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and Hepatitis C.
- k1m 6y ago
  > This is blatantly false. I was replying to "Assange and Wikileaks dumped the entire set of files". "The entire set of files" referring to the Cablegate documents, not the ones you're referring to here. Wikileaks have already addressed the ones you're referring to in a letter to the AP: https://www.docdroid.net/Gi3unfx/letter-to-ap-fv-pdf https://www.docdroid.net/Gi3unfx/letter-to-ap-fv-pdf See also: https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-23-he-endangered-the-lives-of-gay-saudis-6f520acc99c1 https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-23-he-endan...

by k1m 6y ago

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nojito 6y ago

This is blatantly false. Wikileaks released personally identifiable information for numerous at-risk groups around the country. To this day, those files are still available. https://apnews.com/article/b70da83fd111496dbdf015acbb7987fb https://apnews.com/article/b70da83fd111496dbdf015acbb7987fb >In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality can lead to social ostracism, a prison sentence or even death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom. >The AP independently found three dozen records pertaining to family issues in the cables — including messages about marriages, divorces, missing children, elopements and custody battles. Many are very personal, like the marital certificates that reveal whether the bride was a virgin. Others deal with Saudis who are deeply in debt, including one man who says his wife stole his money. One divorce document details a male partner’s infertility. Others identify the partners of women suffering from sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and Hepatitis C.

k1m 6y ago
> This is blatantly false. I was replying to "Assange and Wikileaks dumped the entire set of files". "The entire set of files" referring to the Cablegate documents, not the ones you're referring to here. Wikileaks have already addressed the ones you're referring to in a letter to the AP: https://www.docdroid.net/Gi3unfx/letter-to-ap-fv-pdf https://www.docdroid.net/Gi3unfx/letter-to-ap-fv-pdf See also: https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-23-he-endangered-the-lives-of-gay-saudis-6f520acc99c1 https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-23-he-endan...