posted October 25, 2016 #
Great read from Buzzfeed News on
The Strange, Paranoid World of Julian Assange - the left's champion for exposing military secrets and their bane for exposing insider election info. This bit sums up the best takeaway from the article for me:
The questions asked about the organisation and its leader are often the wrong ones: How has WikiLeaks changed so much? Is Julian Assange the catspaw of Vladimir Putin? Is WikiLeaks endorsing a president candidate who has been described as racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and more?
These questions miss a broader truth: Neither Assange nor WikiLeaks (and the two are virtually one and the same thing) have changed - the world they operate in has. WikiLeaks is in many ways the same bold, reckless, paranoid creation that once it was, but how that manifests, and who cheers it on, has changed.
Information is valuable and dangerous and how you perceive it all depends on what side of that information you're on. I find the duality of Wikileaks quite fascinating and this is a nice peek inside; regardless of what you think.
