During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.
Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who’s having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.
Power is a thing of perception. They don’t need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you.
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.
Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.
Where they couldn’t pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.
Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.
Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.
WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.
Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.
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.
That’s a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we’re getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don’t have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.
Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists – a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.
If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn’t be doing and whether you are playing according to god’s rules.
Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.
I don’t like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
Media is a big problem around the world; it’s powerful and can abuse its power.