Re:Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikil...
by ConfuciusSay02 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:59PM
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They can only release information they have.
If they had the information, I'm sure they would release it - like they have in the past released information damaging to the Bush administration years ago.
Do you have evidence that they have information that they are suppressing?
Re:Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikil...
by tdb7893 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @05:39PM
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I agree, I don't like Assange but I think it's whoever is giving him the leaks and not him who is biased. I just wonder who it is that is doing the leaking
Re:Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikil...
by davesque on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @05:51PM
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He has a TV show on RT (https://www.rt.com/tags/the-julian-assange-show/), a Russian state-run news channel which is widely criticized as being a propaganda outlet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Propaganda_and...). That seems like a massive conflict of interest to me. I also don't imagine it would take very long for him to lose his show if he published any seriously damaging Russian leaks.
Re:Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikil...
by tdb7893 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @06:12PM
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Yeah, I looked at the "America" section of the news site and it's very anti-America and very anti-Clinton. Having a show on there is concerning and looking at the descriptions for the episodes for the shows it looks like Assange really doesn't like the US government at all.
EDIT: I still don't think he's releasing these because of bias but I think he's very happy with the effect of the leaks that he has gotten
Re:Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikil...
by davesque on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @05:46PM
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I don't have evidence that they're sitting on information. But there are plenty of things they've done in recent months that make them sound almost alt-right -- at times seeming extremely obstinate or even belligerent. Here's a fairly well-written article that discusses some of them: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/wikileaks-officially-lost-mora...
Re:Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikil...
by ConfuciusSay02 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @07:30PM
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The main criticism seems to be that they publish personal information.
When the Manning cables that exposed various corrupt and illegal actions of the Bush administration were released, the exact same criticisms were leveled at them.
I'm failing to see the difference between then and now.
I was previously under the impression that Wikileaks's primary mission was to liberate information. However, Wikileaks appears to be only selectively interested in freedom of information and more interested in some arbitrary agenda.
It's important to remember that even facts can appear to mean very different things depending on the context in which they are presented. Whoever is presenting the facts can do a great deal to manipulate people's understanding of them by choosing to emphasize certain aspects and conveniently omitting others.
Update: Here are some outsite views which reflect and/or support my arguments:
1. https://www.wired.com/2016/07/wikileaks-officially-lost-mora...
2. https://www.rt.com/tags/the-julian-assange-show/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Propaganda_and...