By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.
From Julian Assange
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.
The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
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