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> "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" Assange is not, as far as I know, in favour of widespread breaches of privacy. He is in favour of breachi
by calpaterson 15y ago
> "what's good for the goose is good for the gander"
Assange is not, as far as I know, in favour of widespread breaches of privacy. He is in favour of breaching the privacy of governments and non-state organisations, etc for the public benefit.
Assange spent a large amount of his life (before wikileaks) working on technology that enables individuals to maintain their privacy and protect their personal information. It's important to understand that wanting to control his own autobiography is not a contradiction with respect to his work on government and corporate leaking.
- nkassis 15y agoI really hate when people attack him with this. Personal privacy and government secrecy are not the same thing at all.
- danso 15y agoI agree with you. I'm only commenting on his unhappiness that the autobiography ended up not going in the direction that he wanted. We'll have to see how this plays out in terms of what copyright and contractual terms were breached. But if this were a case of a writer working on this memoir with him, and the writer deciding that Assange was whitewashing important events in his career, then this would be the kind of "leak" that would seemingly fall under the kind that Wikileaks feels morally compelled to make. Assange is not merely a private figure any more. The content that would make up his autobiography is of large political importance, given his significant accomplishments. That said, if it turns out the writer ran with the memoir to turn it into a seedy tale of Assange's personal characteristics, then I completely empathize with him. I'm guessing the truth is somewhere in between.