Re:Assange Hearing Day 17
by TheUndead96 on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:23AM
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That's a good point, I had not thought of it in those terms. Snowden was much more "I saw something wrong and I did something about it".
Assange built an organization dedicated to uncovering wrong things.
Re:Assange Hearing Day 17
by FireBeyond on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:56PM
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He did. And somewhere along the line, he also realized, "How can I use this organization to _also_ support my ideologies?"
Assange has always been a political activist as well as whatever else he is, whereas Snowden is much less active. The relations wikileaks had with the Trump campaign and GRU do make me somewhat less sympathetic with him.
On a smaller scale wikileaks have on multiple occasions published lists containing innocent bystanders's full contact and card details - this is clearly a statement in and of itself (not Redacting the details of someone who made a $50 donation to the democrats is wrong and meditated)