Joe Bidet
Random Joe, or should I say… GNU/Joe
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speaking of the Atlantic, read this article:
you’ve been mislead in thinking WikiLeaks releases harmed anyone. the US army harmed the people of Afghanistan, and that’s what this story is about.
1/ journalists do that ALL THE TIME. you protect your source but you are not prevented from asking for more documents
2/ he didnt help escalate anythig. She gave him a hash and he never replied about whether or not it got cracked to anything
3/ it wasn’t even privilege escalation, but allegedly to mask traces, to login from another user. so it would have amounted to helping a source protect herself, if it had been done.
“no qualms” for a journalist facing extradition in a country he is not even a citizen of, for “espionnage”, for revealing war crimes… i wonder what you then have “qualms” about…
You may have got a couple of facts wrong:
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/wrong-about-assange
"Wikileaks had hundreds of thousands of documents it had gotten from Manning – the war logs and State Department cables — for a considerable period in 2010 and went to “extraordinary lengths to publish them in a responsible and redacted manner,” the submissions to a lower U.K. court said. WikiLeaks held back information while it formed media partnerships with news organizations such as The Guardian, The New York Times and DER SPIEGEL to manage the release of the material. Assange’s legal team cited named witnesses, various journalists who worked with Assange on the process. Those witnesses testified to the rigor of the redaction effort.
The media partners’ work on the Afghan war logs included approaching the White House before releasing them. In July 2010, Wikileaks also entered dialogue with the White House about redacting names. On July 25, 2010, WikiLeaks held back publication of 15,000 documents on Afghanistan to safeguard its “harm minimization process” even after its media partners published stories.
Redaction of the Iraq War diaries was likewise “painstakingly approached” and involved the development of special redaction software. Publication was delayed in August 2010 despite this annoying some media partners because Assange didn’t want to rush.
Un-redacted publication of the State Department cables in September 2011 was undertaken by parties unconnected to WikiLeaks, and despite WikiLeaks’ efforts to prevent it, the legal submissions state. Those who revealed un-redacted cables have never been prosecuted nor requested to remove them from the internet.
[Ed.: John Young, founder of Cryptome, testified at Assange’s hearing that he published the unredacted cables before WikiLeaks but was never questioned by police. The password to the unredacted cables was published by Guardian journalists Luke Harding and David Leigh before Cryptome did.]"
The names that were in the warlogs were classified as “confidential” not “secret” or “top secret”. they were in SIPRnet where millions of ppl had access to it. If anyone endangered their sources, translators etc. it’s the US army itself.
- during Manning’s court martial, US officials (a general if i recall) testified under oath that they couldnt’ link one death to the publication.
It’s pure propaganda to say that Assange “endangered people” when he helped reveal the most important trove of documents that actually helped shift public opinion (and therefore slowing down) this war; while at the same time the US was killing and displacing 100.000s.
(+ it’s true that by helping the US army, those informants, sources, translators etc… were already taking a risk in a coutry at war…)
https://video.emergeheart.info/ is focused on the defense of Assange and WikiLeaks
because this furiously sounds like some transhumanist bullshit.
transhumanism as a prolongation of the rich elite’s desire to last forever, and their will to invest their appropriated resources into themselves, erecting fear of death as a valid investment target, making it a priority over all the problems the Earth and most people on it are facing because of them and their greed…
transhumanism should be opposed, at least for as long as we haven’t solved climate emergency…
yes, and for the same reason, when someone says “America” i always ask them: “do you mean South America, Central or North-America?” and they usually go “oh sorry yeah i meant the United States”.
Because langage matters and also brings about colonial notions…
“linux” like “open source” is our freedoms being colonized by the business/“pragmatic” crowd…
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So the casino of deregulated finance, bringing Earth to its doom while increasing inequalities… was actually started by mafia hand in hand with CIA, and institutionalized by the politicians who enabled them, uh?
fascinating…