Wikileaks

I give zero credibility to rape accusations in Sweden.

I don't know who had this wonderful idea to initiate a full-scale attack on Wikileaks and its founder, but it was a serious mistake, and I can guarantee it is going to backfire.

 

You see? Sex always ruins everything... This one is a great example
(~Flame goes below~)

 

Wait a second... in Sweden rape is defined as not wearing a condom during consensual sex?

WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and everything else that goverments and the media label as threats to security and domestic terrorists are actually good things. The lack of oversight in goverments, or worse lax/false oversights, fuels these movements.

 

Ah, the two articles I read only mentioned the no condom part and that he was alleged of rape. They didn't mention the rest.

 

Everyone knows although their lips might quiver no no, their eyes scream yes oh god yes.

 

Hmmm, indeed.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/42068.html

 

My quarrel with his releasing the documents that he did is that people have died thanks to it. Did nobody else hear about the tribal elders and such who are now targeted because some of the documents name them as having cooperated with the U.S Government? I have no qualms with making public information that's been concealed, but tact to try and protect the lives of those who could die due to it would've been nice.

 

Every government has secrets it'll keep from the people, that's not new. Anonymous is going balls deep on this shit, it's gonna be funny. Or tragically horrifying. You know, which ever way this goes.

 

"Interesting" is an apt description. I'm leaning toward "brilliant" at the moment, but hope it proceeds toward "epic."

I should do more research on this phenomenon, but with what little I know about what's going on, I'm already swept up in the romance of it all. As mobile phones have evolved to mobile devices and with the introduction of the iPad and as I anticipate the mainstreaming of tablet PCs in general, I feel an electric excitement as it seems that the future is now and we are already slipping into a Cyber Age. The attack of Anonymous on various established semi-Super Powers manages to finish the Age with the appropriate punk aspect, and I cannot help but be enthused by the power that is apparently available to Everyman. If Anonymous can take on credit card companies, then the average person does not seem so helpless and insignificant after all.

 

Yeah, on one hand we're poised to merge into an overmind of global consciousness, and on the other hand, Ye Olde Powers That Be are fighting for their survival.

Punk attacks on Mastercard are going to seem like child's play by the end of the century. I think it will be Epic, but Interesting as well, in terms of the old curse, May You Live In Interesting Times.

 

We've got to be coming to some sort of culmination of willpower soon. We're due for a global revolution that changes the way everything is done.

 

Thing is, he didn't steal the documents. Hell, he's not even the one releasing them. The information is still out there even without wikileaks; fact is that someone, somewhere has had access to this information and has decided, for whatever reason, that releasing it was a necessity. The whole conflict with wikileaks, including Mastercard's/Paypal's refusal to accept donations and the Australian government's near-revocation of his passport (thankfully K.Rudd stepped in there) is more about the various super powers being frightened of their ever-lessening control over information flow and hence propaganda-mongering than it is about a singular businessman. They want to make an example, Assange is just the scapegoat for the culmination of years of media/press commercialisation and nationalisation that has resulted in misleading information being deliberately released to the public as both a control mechanism and an imposition method. Fact is, people -- and particularly those wanting to stay in power -- need to be much more careful about what they fucking say, whom they say it to and what they do with the records.

I have heard from several different sources now that are claiming that the women in question have both claimed that the sex was entirely consensual and even if it wasn't, you can't say that the charges being filed or atleast being publicised almost exactly after these documents were first being released isn't more than a little coincidental.

Democracy has become a joke, anyway. We elect officials who convince us that they align with our values, but in the end these officials market their campaign towards the majority of citizens in order to get themselves elected. Once in power they'll do nearly anything to retain it, regardless of what aspect of society or industry they're in. What you end up with is a collective of individuals with a hell of a lot of control, very little sense and very little care for the average person who pool their resources in order to shut down even the slightest semblance of social freedom. That's where all this bullshit stemmed from -- some of these idiots are feeling threatened now that their little secrets are out and don't want to deal with the public backlash. The whole fucking concept of democracy is flawed regardless, the media stories and political campaigns are virtually brainwashing the public into believing that people like Assange are cretins and deserve to be locked up or worse.

Nineteen Eighty-Four indeed.