The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange

Re:The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange by jevgeni on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:51AM (#24480156)

When I say “it is difficult to imagine”, what I mean by that is that it is highly unlikely, especially considering how Assange has a history of withholding leaks from publication for his own reasons. Conflict with Domscheit-Berg being pretty indicative of this behaviour.

The Spy Files are not really ground breaking for the Russian public. The Panama Papers were more damning, where a bunch of Russian officials got caught with their pants down. You know, the leak that the official WikiLeaks twitter account claimed to be a Soros-funded conspiracy...

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Re:The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange by jackthezipper on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @08:02AM (#24480221)

IIRC the conflict with Domscheit-Berg was because Assange wanted to publish the war logs unredacted, no? It had nothing to do with Assange withholding leaks, quite the opposite. And wasn't it Domscheit-Berg who actually deleted unreleased documents from the Wikileaks servers?

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Re:The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange by jevgeni on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:44AM (#24482567)

Well, it was a bit more complicated, because there wasn’t any transparency in what leaks WL was in possession of (only Assange held such info) and because Assange published information that had little public relevance, but brought him fame.

Also, not really clear why WL would attack Panama papers...

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