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Re:If WikiLeaks is dying, then the NYT is partly to blame by lwat on Monday November 07, 2011 @09:02PM (#3209158)
Who made Wikileaks about Assange himself? Certainly not Wikileaks?
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Re:If WikiLeaks is dying, then the NYT is partly to blame by knowtheory on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @03:49AM (#3209980)
Really?

Assange did literally ransom the full wikileaks document dump (including the secret cables) for his personal well-being legal immunity.

If the goal was to create a distributed organization w/o obvious single points of failure, Assange certainly did nothing to guarantee those ends.

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