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Julian Assange on Bill Maher last night [video]
- berlinbrown 14y agoEvery show is on DVD. But the one show I love and don't have HBO for, Bill Maher's show. I can't watch old episodes. sucks.
- niggler 14y agoHBO OnDemand (and I assume GO as well) has older episodes ...
- geekam 14y agoI think you have to have the subscription to watch HBO Go.
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- joezydeco 14y agoThe audio is available as a free podcast from iTunes.
- berlinbrown 14y agoThat is true. But I still want to see their expressions.
- joezydeco 14y agoSure. But if you've seen enough episodes, you realize the visuals aren't that big a deal. It's not like Maher is a prop comic or anything.
- berlinbrown 14y agoScrew this, I can't tell who is talking. Give the freaking DVD. I am setting up a petition.
- tomflack 14y agoYoutube link for internationals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieO0I6xJ_zQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieO0I6xJ_zQ
- quink 14y agoThe HBO link seems to work here in Australia - unusual :|
- tomflack 14y agoHeh, I opened it, enabled flash and nothing happened... assumed it wasn't working (Australia also)
- jlgreco 14y agoSame thing happened to me, but I'm in the US.
- felipelalli 14y agoIt is working here in Brazil as well. Not usual.
- richardkmichael 14y agoIt's been taken down now. There is another version, although it appears to be slightly edited from the video posted on "Real Time" website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov3tw8rfdEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov3tw8rfdEE
- felipelalli 14y agoamazing
- shantanubala 14y agoI think Assange's interview at TED was a much more concrete discussion of Wikileaks and its role in politics -- there were real examples in the interview: http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_assange_why_the_world_needs_wikileaks.html http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_assange_why_the_world_needs_... I feel like Maher hinted at a lot of different things, but never actually went in-depth. The discussion was very vague. I would have loved to learn about more cases where Wikileaks was able to provide information that was able to influence a government's actions.
- pacomerh 14y agoMy guess is that they probably didn't go that deep because of the network not wanting to get too controversial for the sake of the viewers? idk, something around that area pobably, otherwise Maher would have asked all kinds of things, I mean he's that kind of person.
- mikevm 14y agoI feel that Assange dodged a few very serious questions posed by Maher. What if Wikileaks does leak out documents that could escalate a conflict?
- Kim_Bruning 14y agoI have a feeling that if you leak-analyze-report (aka, do solid journalism) early and often, that on balance more conflicts are prevented than are caused.
- dlss 14y agoI think this is a wrong question. The premise is that by picking and choosing which stories to cover you can make the world better for your world view. From this sort of logic you can make the case that Google shouldn't support all possible queries -- what if some of the people using Google use the results to cause harm? This is a wrong way of looking at things because although some of the help Google provides people will cause the world to be a worse place, the vast majority of its effects are positive... for every person who looks up movie showtimes so they can go shoot people hundreds of millions of people are using google to have a fun family afternoon. Just because a tool can be used poorly doesn't mean it is wrong that it exists. WikiLeaks is a tool for whistle blowers. It's a tool for people with access to information they feel a moral obligation to share with the world. It's designed to let them do that without throwing their life away in the process. Some of these whistle blowers will be doing things you or I disagree with, some will be doing things we do agree with. That, in balance, this is a good tool to have exist seems straightforward to me. As for conflict vs non-conflict, I think that conflict often is the first step toward long term improvement. If your government has been lying to you about why it's doing what it's doing, telling everyone the truth is virtually guaranteed to create conflict. Conflict of this sort is good. Look at the huge escalation of conflict in the middle east brought about by the cable leaks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring is the least biased link I can find, and a reasonable place to start). I completely agree that there are a lot of bad outcomes from these conflicts so far (60,000 deaths in the Syrian civil war, etc)... I'm just optimistic that we'll get some real governmental reforms in the long run (either from successful revolutions, or from other dictators being wary of betraying their people).
- contingencies 14y agoSummary... nothing really new. Some fairly loaded leading questions and the classic false accusation of charges with regards to Swedish request for extradition (though perhaps in the knowledge that Julian would have an opportunity to correct it). Julian made an appeal to people from within the Whitehouse with access to secret laws and procedures affecting citizen's rights to come forward and share them with the public via Wikileaks. Bill makes smart-arse crack about sending in Ben Affleck "like we did in Iran".
- Already__Taken 14y agoThis is what all US media looks like, from the outside I can't tell what's news and what isn't. Usually I have to wait for a shot with a studio audience in it.
- CorsairSanglot 14y agoThe book Assange is shilling ("Cypherpunks") is available from OR Books here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/ http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/ OR Books is also publishing a book called "Hacking Politics" about the anti-SOPA/PIPA protests, featuring contributions from Swartz, Ron Paul, Kim Dotcom, Alex Ohanian, Cory Doctorow, and Zoe Lofgren. It is pay what you will. http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/hacking-politics-2/ http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/hacking-politics-2/ Note that both books can be purchased with Bitcoin.
- DiabloD3 14y agoWeird, I'm on Firefox and live in the US and all I get is a black screen. It seems to be a full window flash object, but nothing works. Flash works on my machine.
- Kim_Bruning 14y agoit took a minute to start up for me.
- barking 14y agoI used to think that Assange was a bit paranoid but the case of Sami al-Saadi (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20715507 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20715507) and the sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut approach in the Arron Swartz prosecution has changed my view 180 degrees.
- kintamanimatt 14y agoHe never really answered the question as to why he thinks that Sweden is ready and willing to extradite him to the US, and that him being wanted for questioning is a pretense. Is there some evidence that supports his belief?
- foobarqux 14y agoAmong other things Swedish prosecutors refuse to question him in the UK, something which has been done recently for an alleged murderer. There is no obvious reason why they would refuse and none has been given by the prosecutor.
- philwelch 14y agoI don't see how this matters anyway. After they question him, they will still want him to go to jail in Sweden pending trial, and he will still be in the Ecuadorean embassy pretending to be a political prisoner.
- foobarqux 14y agoIt matters because it is believed the Swedish prosecutor does not have enough evidence to actually bring charges. After questioning she will either have to bring charges or drop the case. On the other hand, as you say, questioning Assange in the UK has no obvious downside for the prosecutor.
- philwelch 14y agoAssange's supporters and conspiracy theorists will believe anything except the possibility that someone with a documented history of narcissistic behavior actually sexually assaulted someone.
- foobarqux 14y agoYou can believe that Assange had sex with someone without a condom, in violation of their expressed wishes, without believing that 1. sufficient evidence exists for a case to be brought 2. that he is safer in Sweden from onward extradition to the US for what arguably amounts to political persecution.