Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'

Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by kbenson on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:02PM (#12729716)

While I'm not sure you can entirely fault Wikileaks for the material they receive, I do believe I can fault them for their release policy. I'm not sure of any reason to dole out the leaks slowly over time, leading up to the election. All that does is reduce the time available to get useful information, context and verification about the leaked data. That seems less about journalism informing the public, and more about an activist attempting to influence the public.

I had mixed feeling about Wikileaks before (as I think anyone should, since it's a very complex topic), but any thoughts I had as to him be impartial in any way (as a good journalist should be) are now out the window.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by spdustin on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:37PM (#12730022)

That's an excellent point that I had not considered. The doling out of emails over time, segmenting them into topics (should a leak be editorialized?) and offering up what are essentially promotional teases for more data ... that does seem to move the needle away from "journalists educating the electorate" to "politically motivated guy with a chip on his shoulder".

Honestly, Assange shouldn't have been the face behind the leaks. It should've been the agency's "face", and it should've been dumped all at once, like most of their past releases.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by EdHominem on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:33PM (#12730423)

That's a pretty bad strategy though. Even if you were tweeting coupons for your store you'd want to space the tweets out to get more attention.

Also, think of the political dynamic. There isn't much difference between one huge scandal and ten - there's still only so much airtime. Anything leaked as a unit can be responded to as a unit.

Anyone could anonymously create a torrent and paste it in some related thread, the important thing, and why people go to Wikileaks, is getting it read faster than "they" can delete it.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by linkregister on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:42PM (#12730059)

Absolutely Assange has had an anti-Hillary slant; I don't consider Wikileaks and Assange to be the same. Maybe I should (?). I guess I give leaders to have the latitude to have opinions that don't represent their organizations.

One look at Assange's Twitter is all it takes to see the obvious anti-Hillary bias. The shrill "Hillary's got an earpiece!" post is one of the most glaring examples.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by oldmanjay on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:23PM (#12730351)

Assange is anti-power, and likely feels Trump is not a serious challenger, so there is more to be won from hurting Clinton. It's not really an anti-Hillary bias.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by allpaidshills on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:05PM (#12730644)

Wikileaks has over 800k Russian documents that Putin was not happy about getting leaked.

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Whistleblowers/Russia

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by kbenson on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:21PM (#12730718)

Is there anything there that's newer than a decade ago? Or did my quick perusal miss some more recent dates?

Perhaps you can provide more info on exactly what documents you think Putin is not happy about?

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by linkregister on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:51PM (#12730894)

Two comments up I state that I don't equate Wikileaks and Assange. I defended Wikileaks in the comment.

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