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Julian Assange claims WikiLeaks is more accountable than governments | Media. WikiLeaks is more accountable than democratically elected governments because it accepts donations from members of the public, Julian Assange has claimed, in his first formal public appearance since being arrested in December following accusations of rape and sexual assault. Questioned at a public debate about the whistleblowing organisation's own transparency, Assange told an audience of 700 people, many of them supporters: "We are directly supported on a week-to-week basis by you. You vote with your wallets every week if you believe that our work is worthwhile or not.

If you believe we have erred, you do not support us. If you believe we need to be protected in our work, you keep us strong. "That dynamic feedback, I say, is more responsive than a government that is elected after sourcing money from big business every four years. " "What gives you the right to decide what should be known or not? The Guardian has not received any notification of such action from WikiLeaks or its lawyers.

Assange: I’m Influenced by “American libertarianism, market libertarianism” Forbes has a big interview up with controversial Wikileaks impresario Julian Assange. This section in particular will be of interest to our readers: Would you call yourself a free market proponent? Absolutely. I have mixed attitudes towards capitalism, but I love markets. How do your leaks fit into that? To put it simply, in order for there to be a market, there has to be information. There’s the famous lemon example in the used car market. By making it easier to see where the problems are inside of companies, we identify the lemons. You’ve developed a reputation as anti-establishment and anti-institution. Not at all. It’s not correct to put me in any one philosophical or economic camp, because I’ve learned from many.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks out against Hilary Clinton. Julian Assange The Cypherpunk Revolutionary | Robert Manne | The Monthly. SlowTV: What is Labor's future? : Mark Latham with Robert Manne SlowTV: Does social democracy have a future? Merkel, Manne, Gallop, Lake Man of Wood : Robert Manne on John Howard’s 'Lazarus Rising' SlowTV: Asylum seekers and Australian democracy: Manne, Lake, Burnside, Megalogenis SlowTV: Exclusive: Robert Manne on asylum seekers and the Left's failure SlowTV: Power Trip. Home » Robert Manne » The Cypherpunk Revolutionary Julian Assange Interview: Late Night Live Extract of 3,000-words: The Australian March 2011: Revised in light of a lengthy email exchange initiated by Julian Assange March 2011 | The Monthly Essays | Assange | Communications | Human Rights | Iraq | Julian Assange | Wikileaks | HRAFF Less than twenty years ago Julian Assange was sleeping rough.

According to Assange, his mother, Christine Hawkins, left her Queensland home for Sydney at the age of seventeen, around 1970, at the time of the anti–Vietnam War movement when the settled culture of the Western world was breaking up. “Hi, this is Julian Assange” » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. While WikiLeaks relied on the greatest news outlets in the world, Julian Assange entrusted OWNI with the conception, the design and the development of the crowdsourcing application. Here is the story. Our questions. His answers. On Friday, October 8, an email appeared in our inbox, citing an “urgent request” for the team that developed the Afghanistan warlogs application. It was forwarded to me, as I was the datajournalist behind the project. Although I was almost certain that this was the umpteenth journalist enquiry regarding the warlogs, the sender’s name immediately caught my eye.

It was Sunshine Press. After such excitement, we of course accepted to go to the meeting Assange had proposed, in London, three days later. “We have the same dataset as the one you worked on. “What is the risk that this file encounters the same criticism as the first ones, especially with regards to the names of the informants?” 1. The Life and Career of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange. Watch: The Julian Assange Movie Looks Incredible. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. Julian Assange and his leaky-activities have occupied the headlines for over a year now, so it was only a matter of time before the man’s life was spun into a movie. Normally these biopics are awful, especially if they’re direct to television, but this one is different. It’s called Underground: The Julian Assange Story and it’s a Wikileaks origin tale that looks amazing. We’ve been following Underground for a while, right back when it started shooting in February, we were interested and we asked you to contribute props to the flick if you had them.

All that help has paid off, because this two-minute trailer released by Channel Ten looks amazing. Watch Rachel Griffiths light up the screen as Christine Assange and Anthony LaPaglia fill the frame as the badass detective who is out for Assange and his crew. Julian Assange: Statement on the Unauthorised, Secret Publishing of the Julian Assange “autobiography” by Canongate. (on 2011-09-22) Julian Assange Press Statement on the Unauthorised "Autobiography": Thursday 22nd September 2011, 0100Update; 27 September 2011, 1900 - New Primary Sources at Bottom I have learned today through an article in The Independent that my publisher, Canongate, has secretly distributed an unauthorised 70,000 word first draft of what was going to be my autobiography.

According to The Independent, Canongate “enacted a huge security operation to secretly ship books out to thousands of stores nationwide without tipping anyone off as to the content of the book”. It will be in the bookshops tomorrow. I am not “the writer” of this book. I own the copyright of the manuscript, which was written by Andrew O’Hagan. By publishing this draft against my wishes Canongate has acted in breach of contract, in breach of confidence, in breach of my creative rights and in breach of personal assurances.

The publisher has not been given a copy of the manuscript by Andrew O’Hagan or me. Jamie: No. Sex, Lies and Julian Assange (Four Corners) Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks. Julian Assange. Early life Assange was born in Townsville. Hacking In September 1991, he was discovered hacking into the Melbourne master terminal of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecommunications.[9] The Australian Federal Police tapped Assange's phone line (he was using a modem), raided his home at the end of October,[36][37] and eventually charged him in 1994 with thirty-one counts of hacking and related crimes.[9] Trax and Prime Suspect were each charged with a smaller number of offences.[38] In December 1996, he pleaded guilty to twenty-five charges (the other six were dropped), and was ordered to pay reparations of A$2,100 and released on a good behaviour bond,[9][34][39][40][41][42] avoiding a heavier penalty due to the perceived absence of malicious or mercenary intent and his disrupted childhood.[39][40][43][44] Programming WikiLeaks Assange, c. 2006 After his period of study at the University of Melbourne, Assange and others established WikiLeaks in 2006.

U.S. legal position. Leaked: Julian Assange on the Dance Floor? - Kashmir Hill - The Not-So Private Parts. Julian Assange "getting down" on the dance floor in Reykjavik. WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange. The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Eyjafjallajökull had recently begun erupting, and he said, “We’re here to write about the volcano.”

Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. Assange also wanted to insure that, once the video was posted online, it would be impossible to remove. Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell. “That’s for you,” she said. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks - Oslo Freedom Forum 2010.