Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by tptacek on Monday October 17, 2016 @04:20PM
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To believe that's what Assange is trying to do, you'd have to explain away the drip-drip scheduling of the releases and the (often false) editorializing he does with decontextualized snippets from the email leaks. It's not simply that Assange is exclusively leaking stolen emails from Democrats, but the manner in which he's doing it.
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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by existencebox on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:39PM
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That's a fair point, I can't say I'm as tuned into the drama as tightly as I should (or shouldn't, for my mental sanity?) be. I was more addressing the general case of your question; can his local actions of seeming uniformly opposing one party occur out of any incentive other than being in the pocket of that party, and additionally your statement re: zero-sum-game given that being an argument I find frustrating. Taking into account broader context should adjust your prior, for sure.
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by tptacek on Monday October 17, 2016 @09:40PM
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Yeah, I completely agree! that there is a way for a "leak broker" trying to serve the same role as WL to responsibly publish leaked email dumps from Russian hackers, even if those hackers are only sourcing from the Democrats and not the Republicans. It is not my argument that third parties can't publish unfavorable things about Clinton without implicitly supporting Trump!
The problem is that what Wikileaks is doing is much worse than that.