<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Walter Stanish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.stanish@saffrondigital.com">walter.stanish@saffrondigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>[blah blah]<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
More pragmatically, Assange's strategy of co-opting the personnel,<br>
distribution and reputation of a string of international media outlets is a<br>
rather effective counter to the notion that "real secrets don't end up in<br>
the mainstream press". He has masterfully utilised their commercial<br></blockquote><div><br>Actually it isn't. It just means they aren't real secrets worth keeping.<br></div><div> <br>
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> along the way they get to accomplish several goals..<br>
> introducing more propaganda but from a 'trusted good guy anti-establishment<br>
> rebel source' which is useful to manipulate the growing demographic that<br>
> nolonger believes the mainstream press and in cracking down on wikileaks<br>
> they get to accomplish several more goals such as implementing internet<br>
> censorship programs.<br>
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</div>Really an interesting take, but actually the effect seems to have been quite<br>
the opposite. The internet is very anti-censorship. At this point, to my<br>
mind, if a failure in the justice system were to convict Mr. Assange, or he<br>
were to be assassinated, a situation closer to a global string of civil unrest<br>
would more likely occur.<br></blockquote><div><br>Whatever happens will likely be all part of the plan.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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When I have met him, Mr. Assange has appeared to be a person of<br>
the highest ethical standing and intelligence. I would be very surprised<br>
if he turned out to be working for a conventional government and against<br>
the interests of his fellow beings, since all of his code and speech<br>
suggests strongly of an intelligent mind standing for the contrary.<br></blockquote><br><div><br>So he's good at his job.. or perhaps isn't aware he's doing it (even better). <br><br>[snipped various pro-assenge blahblah]<br>
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As for the notion of 'clamping down', Wikileaks is a powerful tool<br>
against over-regulation and corruption.<br></blockquote><div><br>I'm sure it is.. and it will be applied selectively to specific instances of corruption.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Wikipedia's summary states that "Joly would communicate the secret ways<br>
in which liberalism might spawn a despot". That seems fairly relevant, both<br>
to the pre and post-Wikileaks world.<br></blockquote><div><br>I'm sure the world will continue to funciton in much the same way post-wikileaks.<br><br>Rob<br></div></div><br>