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Funny how everyone's opinion about Assange changed after 2016.

• tootie 6y ago
  I've been a pretty consistent believer that Assange is a narcissist and an ass on personal level. His public statements about his work always seemed childish and petulant. It probably does bias me somewhat against his work. I'm generally supportive of bringing information to light, but Assange himself doesn't seem to do much besides host the data and he doesn't even do that well since he leaked the unredacted cablegate. And given that MSM sources have exposed far more and it don't more responsibly and faced courts over their actions, it makes me think that he's not much of a hero. I'm not sold that his actions wrt to cablegate were espionage, but I'd very much like to hear about what he discussed with Roger Stone and Guccifer 2.0.
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• baud147258 6y ago
  I don't think my opinion much changed since I heard about wikileak
• colordrops 6y ago
  One of the main activities of the CIA is to shape public opinion. They already proved that they hated him enough to hire contractors to destroy him, and the leaked HBGary/Palantir proposal from 2011 even talks about smearing him on social media: https://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf https://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf
• anothernewdude 6y ago
  Funny how hard this narrative of people liking him before 2016 is being pushed.