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Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by sanswork on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:00PM (#14406159)
>Why won't wikileaks confirm or deny whether he worked for them?

Because they have a lot to gain politically by hinting at it and adding fuel to the conspiracy theories while being able to say "we didn't actually say he was our source" if the actual data comes out proving he wasn't.

>It's like they want to fuel conspiracy theories without feeling responsible for them.

They do and your vouching this above comment is just helping these people smear a dead mans life.

Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by Houshalter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:07PM (#14406216)
Alright I undid it, mostly because I don't want to get in trouble with the mods. That does make a lot of sense. I have a friend who is really into this stuff and showed me videos about it. So I reacted negatively when the only discussion about it was flagged to hell, and all the comments were just telling him to "fuck off" with no argument.
Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by micheljones on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:13PM (#14406262)
Thank you for the support of free speech anyway. I do not claim it is true, I claim that there's enough 'hints' that it should warrant a proper investigation and not a coverup.

As for this guy's claims:

1) Assange all but confirms it: https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/866536275972689920

2) Seth Rich's parents want the truth and justice as well, instead of the coverup that was done so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcKiYTq5Gho

Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by micheljones on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:09PM (#14406235)
Assange all but confirms it on his account:

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/866536275972689920

As for the 'smearing a dead man's life', I don't see how it's smearing - if it gets proven to be true, that man is a national hero. And as for 'causing hardship to his family', which is probably the next angle you're gonna try to use, the dead man's parents want the truth too, and not a coverup of their son's death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcKiYTq5Gho

Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by sanswork on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:13PM (#14406266)
Assange is very careful to give the impression of confirming it while never actually doing it because he wants to fuel the fires.

>I don't see how it's smearing

You're saying he isn't trustworthy and that he is a criminal.

>he dead man's parents want the truth too, and not a coverup of their son's death:

That video was thanking people for supporting the gofundme campaign and has nothing to do with the conspiracy theories. This fact has been posted everywhere the video has for days now so given your obvious interest I can only assume that you're posting it knowing this.

His family have threatened to sue fox and his brother wrote quite the letter to Hannity asking him to stop.

Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by micheljones on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:21PM (#14406321)
I am saying that he's a hero.

As for the threats to sue, they were issued by a DNC spokeperson, and not by the family: https://i.redd.it/2p4wvr9k9wxy.png

Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by sanswork on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:27PM (#14406362)
You believe the leaker is a hero. But what you are saying is that he hacked into his employers email accounts and stole their emails then distributed that information to a third party.

It's nice to see the DNC supporting his family. Search for his brothers letter.

Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by shard972 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:47AM (#14408484)
> You believe the leaker is a hero. But what you are saying is that he hacked into his employers email accounts and stole their emails then distributed that information to a third party.

What do you think should happen to trump leaker?

Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by jessaustin on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:31PM (#14413970)
Some people envision something like the punishment that Chelsea Manning received. Or even worse, given how many authoritarian bootlickers claim she "got off easy". Of course, that may already have happened...
Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by sanswork on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:43AM (#14422214)
What do you think I think should happen to the DNC leaker(assuming it is a leaker)? Because I haven't actually stated my opinion on that anywhere.
Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by micheljones on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:16PM (#14406900)
Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by dang on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:52AM (#14407851)
Your account appears to be using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's an abuse of this site, and we ban accounts that do it (regardless of political leaning) so please stop.
Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by sanswork on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:49PM (#14407028)
Wheeler: "I have no evidence but I'm pretty sure the police are hiding something!"

Foxnews corespondent: The family is begging me for help.

The family: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-seth-richs-pare...

Re:A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks by jcranmer on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:26PM (#14406353)
> As for the 'smearing a dead man's life', I don't see how it's smearing - if it gets proven to be true, that man is a national hero.

You're ignoring the inverse of that statement: if it's false, then you're actively trying to use a regular murder for pure political ends and abusing the justice system to do so.