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ComradReddit

Hey Julian Assange. If you love "total transparency" so much, why don't you also release all the Wikileak internal emails. Tell us who finance your operation? Tel us where did you get all your leaks from? Total transparency right? Or that doesn't apply to you?

Guess what? Wikileak needs to operate in complete secrecy in order to do what it does. But somehow, governments and corporations are expected to be 100% transparent? Notice how if you apply the standard to yourself, things don't work so well then? You see why organizations need secrecy?

Posted Dec 2, 2010, 5:28 AM UTC

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g4mm4•

Jeez, you're missing the "huh? HUH?!"

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Stitchopoulis•

Remember that time wikileaks sent out a thank you to its donors and it wasn't bcc'd? And it was submitted as a leak and published?

All Julian's saying is "I'm not the leak," but he's shown his willingness to publish leaks from wikileaks if they're submitted. If anyone wants to leak it, they're free to. They're also free to leak through other means. Wikileaks isn't the only leak game in town, after all.

Perhaps the wikileaks staff doesn't feel there's anything that needs to leak, unlike the other leaks they've published.

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finallymadeanaccount•

They're also free to leak through other means.

Thanks for the permission! I'm off to have a leak through my penis!

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cschuler•

If he thinks information should be freely available he shouldn't wait for a leak. The whole point of the website is to encourage freely available information.

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brickout•

That's fucking idiotic.

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[deleted]•

Go back to the Empire, stormtrooper.

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organicsarcasm•

You should check your facts before you nonsensically run your mouth and look like a twat, as you just have. While I thank you for the sweet, sweet lul'z, I'm also concerned with your inaccuracy. Here's a link which renders your little..rant pretty much just as moronic as it comes across in the first place. Derp.

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ComradRedditOP•

WikiLeaks may have other sources of funding aside from money handled by Wau Holland — perhaps from private donors and other foundations — but Fulda had no knowledge of them.

How much money does Julian have? Does he get money outside of Wikileak? Do you know how they come into these documents? Who provided to them? You don't. And in order for this site to work, they need to keep that a SECRET. If the every communication detail of Wikileak is exposed like the recent dump, then all the leakers' safety is in danger. So yes, they need secrecy to continue their operation. That is fine. But then to expect other organization to have total transparency is just hypocritical.

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Stitchopoulis•

Find someone to leak that info. Julian's not the leak, he's just a conduit for them. The New York Times published the pentagon papers without opening their books.

I don't think he's expecting every organization to be transparent, he's just saying if there's something shameful that should see the light of day, they'll help. What shameful things should wikileaks expose? Their donors? Done.

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organicsarcasm•

It's not total transparency, but it's a start. I just think you're a complete idiot for even bringing this up. If he's concerned about transparency, I don't know why you'd would waste it's time on worrying about some Swedish fellow who is doing what journalists should have been doing for the past 30+ years. You it should be concerned with the American government's total lack of transparency, it's so shrouded in chaos and wrongdoings that it's about to send the whole country into oblivion. Also, I'm pretty sure Assange is already in danger. Same with all of his WikiLeaks coworkers, since they're all 'terrorists' in the blind eyes of the US government.

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spewerOfRandomBS•

ALso, Assange is one individual who may or may not be doing the right thing. Transparency of one individual has no major implications in the big picture.

Transparency of a government that represents hundreds of millions of people, does.

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organicsarcasm•

Ungh, you again? Here. I have nothing left to say to you.

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Stitchopoulis•

That's just the thing, the US has gone "secret, secret" while at the same time conditioning its citizens to accept "nothing is private" as a fact of life. The genie's out of the bottle. Americans accept that nothing is private. And like making a wish with a genie, it was poorly considered; good luck finding a citizen who will keep things private now that they know nothing of theirs is.

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user681•

This guys just a troll..read all his posts Hes clearly a 12 year old anti wikileak

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Enigma1313•

Well played sir

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rottinguy•

into GOVERNMENT transparency

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ComradRedditOP•

like Bank of America?

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rottinguy•

you work for BoA?

that makes you the devil doesn't it?

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ComradRedditOP•

no, but i bank there.

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rottinguy•

I'm so sorry to hear that. you have my sincerest condolences.

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