Comments | jurgenzuvols: 20 minutes have elapsed. The future is now. Max was fiction. Blank Julian is real.

jurgenzuvols

20 minutes have elapsed. The future is now. Max was fiction. Blank Julian is real.

Dec 09, 2010 17:20

If you keep up with the news, it's kinda hard to miss what has happened to a certain Julian Assange. Julian is an information activist, world citizen, public enemy, cyber-terrorist, or hyper-journalist, depending on your point of view ( Read more... )

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cunian December 10 2010, 13:23:22 UTC

He seemed to have a bit of a martyrdom wish going. And why would he necessarily not have had a contingency order going with these guys to start acting up once he was arrested? Maybe he wanted to show how much chaos/bad things he could trigger by that. I don't remember Max Headroom well at all, but I tend to think of him more as the guy in Fight Club, just mental rather than physical.

jurgenzuvols December 10 2010, 13:54:54 UTC

Yeah, I think you have some good points. He sure does seem to have a bit of an edge on him. It seems like he does have contingency plans in place, and DDOS attacks aren't his plan. His plan was to expose more sensitive information by releasing an encryption key...

But Edison Carter from Max Headroom had that fighting spirit... which is why I use the analogy...

Bearing in mind that I live and work in Germany now... bianca_di_bari December 15 2010, 22:21:01 UTC

While one can argue the bit about shining truth on the release of documents by/about war strategies... what does releasing diplomatic cables have to do with truth? Those cables are the govt equivalent of water cooler chit-chat. I know people would flip if their boss had mic'ed up their local water cooler and then released the tapes to the subjects spoken of. So why does the same happening to our diplomats shine as a morally correct choice? Releasing news about what one believes to be war-crimes is one thing but spilling gossip between correspondents is just sensationalism for its own sake.
-Bianca

Re: Bearing in mind that I live and work in Germany now... bianca_di_bari December 16 2010, 02:21:46 UTC

Actually, the vast majority of that water cooler chit-chat shows the U.S. Department of State to be highly professional and competent. However, some of the cables also reveal bad behavior on the part of foreign politicians (in one example, a middle-eastern president provided top cover for American Counter-Terrorist assaults, lying to his own parliament by claiming the raids were his actions). More than that, Wikileaks has also exposed corruption an questionable actions in the DoD, the Church of Scientology, Peruvian Politic taking illegal Oil Company deals, and Icelandic Banks making large loans to the bank owners ( ... )