| >In my opinion, one of the best ways of identifying an authoritarian is to ask them their opinions on Snowden or Assange. As far as Assange goes I think he is a liar. The primary piece of evidence I use to support this is that he claims that his media firm, Sunshine Press was a non-profit when its documents of incorporation list it as a private limited company. https://www.facebook.com/WikiLeaks.SunshinePress >Official Facebook Page-- The Sunshine Press (Wikileaks), is an international non-profit organization (That's all I've got as its website is dead now) Incorporation document: https://www.scribd.com/doc/47601520/SUNSHINE-PRESS-PRODUCTIO... Definition of EHF: https://island.is/en/limited-liability-companies A second piece of evidence is that the original release of Collateral Murder was edited to remove the armed men accompanying the journalists who were killed and the unedited version was only released after public outcry. The presence of armed men escorting the journalists may have been used to justify the attack, which occurred just a couple hundred meters from an active firefight, so the context was deleted in the initial release. A third piece of evidence is that Assange lied to John Young, a highly-respected member of the "leaking" community to get him to register the original Wikileaks domain waaaay back in the day and then the Wikileaks community turned on John when he dared speak out. https://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm Finally, a fourth piece of evidence is that they used Wau Holland (Chaos Computer Club) as an initial fundraising arm to funnel money to Sunshine Press, and Wau Holland promised an audit of the substantial sums of money being directed to Sunshine Press, but they only ended up publishing three bare-bones "transparency reports" after millions had been spent and their tax-free status had been revoked for funding a for-profit enterprise. Once it became impossible to funnel donations tax-free to the for-profit business through Wau Holland donations slowed, communications stopped, and the association between the two ended. Please note that none of the banking shenanigans going on at the time impacted Wau Holland. https://wauland.de/en/projects/enduring-freedom-of-informati... Does any of the above make me an authoritarian? |