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Huh? You think Julian Assange is Putin's buddy?
His editorial policy on the release of leaked information was, for lack of a better term, biased.
Editorial policy is a blatant excuse. Have you scrutinized Fox News, CNN, DW and RT editorial policies? Want them tortured to death too? Nah, that's just the USA state giving us a lesson to keep our heads down, nothing more, nothing less.
We want them all held responsible. That some aren't isn't a reason none should be. We have to start somewhere. We shouldn't stop there.
Use the right words, to "held him responsible" means to potentially murder him in the name of democracy. Add to this that the USA state is not going after all these people, nevertheless, they are crossing borders for Assange. They want to show him to the world as an example. Their efforts resemble those they took to get to Osama.
First. No realistically it doesn't. Second, they should. I never said they shouldn't. Specifically I said they should hold them all responsible. So I don't know what you're getting at. You're not even addressing what I said.
And who exactly do you expect to talk about the crimes the US commits? Their allies? Just because the information comes from a biased source doesn't change the fact that all of the information is accurate. Doesn't change the extrajudicial killings, illegal detentions, torture...
Like, I'll give you that he is biased. So what? Are you proud of the things he revealed the US is doing? We commit crimes and then hide behind "national security" when the only "security" being threatened is that of those on top commiting these henious acts and hoping to get away with it.
The source doesn't change the facts that were presented.
Do you have a copy of his editorial policy? I'd like to read it.
It was sarcasm, the point is that they did not follow an editorial policy. At least not in the way they claimed.
https://spotify.link/vh9Y40LWFDb
TL;DL? At least, a little bit more detail, ie what they did and what they claimed the policy was.
Essentially their policy of leaking everything and anything tended to mostly apply to the US and allies of the US. This would then expose collaborators in places like Belarus and place their lives in danger. Wikileaks would say this was in the name of transparency. However in cases where they were dealing with information being leaked from Russia they would be more careful to editorialize the leaks and protect identities.
Then, aside from that, Assange partook in activities that completely deviated from journalistic protocol and entered the territory of espionage. In particular dealing with the case of chealsea manning, in her communications with Assange, Assange actively aided Chelsea in ways to access restricted information in a way that broke the law. Russian asset or not, that's a big nono.
Manning's account should reasonably be called into question, not least because she refused to testify against Assange in 2019 (and was subsequently jailed for 10 months and fined a quarter million).
WikiLeaks' audience has always been primarily English-speaking, as such their focus is going to be on news related to English-speaking countries. While you're drawing a difference between two different countries, that could just as easily be explained by a difference in time - people criticised them for their releases in Belarus as being careless and putting lives at risk, so with their later releases around Russia they were more careful.
I just feel like you never would have this impression if you'd just read WikiLeaks' publications, press releases and social media posts, as well as any other sources on the topics they cover, rather than reading articles about WikiLeaks itself. You would only think WikiLeaks is pro-Russia if you follow a pre-constructed narrative and frame the evidence in a particular way. It's very murky overall, but I don't think that viewpoint lines up objectively.
Lol that's BS, they literally started by leaking mostly secrets of post Soviet states, but nobody gave a shit and editors of news paper there were instructed by their higher ups in Washington not to publish it.
Source: Mediastan (2013)
And yes he probably did have a bias against Hillary, I wonder if that could be because SHE WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN HIS PERSECUTION.
Actually the Clinton/Podesta emails revealed a lot of dirt on Trump too, dirt the DNC had dug up...
Indeed!
But none of the RNC data that also was stolen...
How could a secretary of state be involved in prosecution? That's completely outside their job description and it isn't as if that's a job with a lot of free time.
Just like you know billionaires' wealth will trickle down to you eventually? Both ideas came from the same source.
Did Vladimir come visit his buddy Julian in the embassy then? Hang on I've gotta look up those visitor logs UC Global kept.
Is everyone forgetting how Assange had a TV show on RT, the Russian state propaganda network?
And how every single leak about Russia was either heavily redacted, or just not released, when leaks about the US or US allies were not? Even when some of those US ally leaks put people in danger?
Wikileaks showed clear favoritism to Russia, because Russia was footing the bills.
Right after they moved servers to Russia he started echoing Kremlin talking points. He's likely an asset at this point.
There are no servers in Russia lmao
As far as I can tell, you're right, I haven't seen anything about the wikileaks servers. Maybe Peaty was thinking about how Assange heavily implied he got documents from a murdered Democratic party employee when he really got them from a Russian intelligence agency.