cberg wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
cberg wrote:
Wikileaks also went to great lengths to avoid publishing compromising information relating to public safety.
I'm afraid I don't trust Julian Assange to not sell this information to third parties. National security is a protection racket but it's one that's necessary.
Wrong!! ! Wikileaks is CROWD FUNDED.
Which is all very well how they are funded. But the two issues that concern me are;
1. Wikileaks can't guarantee what what they release is either misleading or fraudulent. popularized conspiracies about the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton, such as tweeting an article which suggested Clinton campaign chairperson John Podesta engaged in satanic rituals (which was later revealed to be false), implying that the Democratic Party had Seth Rich killed, suggesting that Clinton wore earpieces to debates and interviews, claiming that Hillary Clinton wanted to drone strike Assange, promoting conspiracy theories about Clinton's health, and promoting a conspiracy theory
from a Donald Trump–related Internet community tying the Clinton campaign to child kidnapper Laura Silsby.
Assange is partly responsible for Trump's election victory, their twitter account was in direct contact with Trump Jnr prior to the 2016 election
2. Wikileaks does a data dump which is published to the public. But they decide what gets published and the rest kept in secure encrypted database. Either way the information they release is potentially usable by terrorist organisations or the stuff they hide is potentially for sale