Guiding Ideas
Guiding Ideas
Timeline ("Greatest Hits")
Timeline ("Greatest Hits")
Timeline ("Greatest Hits")
Timeline ("Greatest Hits")
Timeline ("Greatest Hits")
Timeline ("Greatest Hits")
Timeline ("Greatest Hits")
Assange's Legal Troubles
Assange's Legal Troubles
Assange's Legal Troubles
Critics of Wikileaks
Critics of Wikileaks
SO... Things are complicated.
What ethical arguments can be made in favor of / against the publication of private, classified, or otherwise internal government / corporate documents?
Conspiracy as Governance
Conspiracy as Governance
Conspiracy as Governance
Media Censorship
How is the mainstream media censored?
"Most wars in the twentieth century started as a result of lies amplified and spread by the mainstream press. And you may say, 'Well, that is a horrible circumstance; it is terrible that all these wars start with lies.' and I say no, this is a tremendous opportunity, because it means that populations basically don't like wars and they have to be lied into it. That means we can be 'truthed' into peace. That is cause for great hope." - Assange
Media Censorship
Many different forms of censorship
Summary - Transparency Model of Justice
Problems with the Transparency Model of Justice
Problems with the Transparency Model of Justice
Policy on Redactions
Policy on Redactions
"One has to understand the primary reason we engage in harm-minimization procedures. It's not primarily because the material we release will have a reasonable risk of producing harm... that's very rare. Rather, there is a probable risk that if we don't engage in that sort of behavior our opponents will opportunistically attempt to distract from the revelations that we have published... by instead speaking about whether there is a potential for harm, and therefore whether this release is hypocritical - given that we want to promote justice - and whether the organization is hypocritical. And so a lot of the procedures that we engage in are not merely to try to minimize risk to people who might be named in the material; rather it is to minimize the risk that opportunists will reduce the impact of the material when it is released."
Policy on Redactions
Policy on Redactions
Conclusions
Conclusions
With all this in mind...
Should Julian Assange be prosecuted for espionage, or should the President drop the investigation against Wikileaks?