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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
- Julian Assange
#Fighting
#Legal
#People
#Safe
#World
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
- Julian Assange
#Information
#Legal
#News
#Political
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
- Julian Assange
#Either
#Own
#Someone
#Who
#Your
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
- Julian Assange
#Censorship
#Form
#Leaks
#New
#Stopping
I believe that the way to justice is education.
- Julian Assange
#Believe
#Education
#Justice
#Way
The media helps keep government honest.
- Julian Assange
#Government
#Helps
#Honest
#Keep
#Media
WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
- Julian Assange
#Capitalism
#Ethical
#Free
#Make
#More
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
- Julian Assange
#Government
#Industrial
#Industry
#Spying
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.
- Julian Assange
#Best
#Global
#Human
#Internet
#Society
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
- Julian Assange
#Ignorance
#Media
#Memory
#People
#War
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
- Julian Assange
#Always
#Bishops
#Down
#Kings
#Knowledge
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.
- Julian Assange
#Civilization
#First Time
#Human
#Time
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
- Julian Assange
#Economics
#Imagination
#Political
#World
I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.
- Julian Assange
#Big Fan
#Big
#Fan
#Freedom
#Who
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
- Julian Assange
#Being
#History
#Material
#Nobody
#Out
It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.
- Julian Assange
#Bank
#Hide
#Interesting
#Offshore
#Swiss
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
- Julian Assange
#Greatest
#Intellectual
#Modern
#Treasure
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
- Julian Assange
#Bad
#Believe
#Good
#Journalism
#See
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
- Julian Assange
#Cage
#Ignorant
#Keep
#Person
#Place
We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.
- Julian Assange
#Doctor
#Information
#Know
#Secrets
#Way
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
- Julian Assange
#Corruption
#Early
#Police
#Reporting
Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.
- Julian Assange
#Attack
#Journalism
#Mean
#Real
#Truth
WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption.
- Julian Assange
#About
#Broken
#Corruption
#Hard
#Some
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
- Julian Assange
#Controversial
#Good
#Journalism
#Nature
Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
- Julian Assange
#Direction
#Journalism
#Respect
#Science
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
- Julian Assange
#Behavior
#Good
#Intelligence
#Keep
#Law
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
- Julian Assange
#Building
#Independence
#Internet
#Like
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