Posts by Steve Parks
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to giovanni tiso,
do me a really big favour and just write something interesting about the content of the cables?
I tried about five times, and I wasn’t the only one, but yeah, whatever. It’s not as if PAS is the last remaining website in the world.
I’ve read your comments and links, and some of those of others, and then further comments and links etc… and I have changed my view on the value of WikiLeaks overall quite a lot. This is part of the value of PA for me.
But can you see how some of the posters favourable to WikiLeaks have been rather dickish in their responses, in a way that’s not helpful in getting the discussion aimed more at the content? For example…… or an assortment of people calling someone who has yet to have a day in court a rapist, which obviously makes you a lot happier.
I know Danielle has covered this already, but please, rodgerd, point me to this assortment of people.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Not suggesting the judge is part of some conspiracy, but the decision not to grant bail seems overly cautious, to say the least.
Probably entirely understandably, though.
Well, no, not entirely. I don’t understand why you’d refuse to grant bail to someone on the basis that they could disappear, when they just handed themselves in. Why would they do this, if they were intending to disappear once they were granted bail?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s not crazy for a man who turned up in the UK with no record of him having entered the country to be regarded as a flight risk.
But, why would the flight risk turn himself in? The judge said something about how Assange would be able to disappear. If so, why wouldn’t he just go ahead and do so? Why turn himself in to the authorities in the hope he’d be granted bail, so that he could do what he could have done prior to giving himself up?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Seriatim,
Credit where it's due.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
It doesn’t matter whether you think one party deserved it and the other didn’t. … I’m sure there are people who think, say, PayPal also deserves a revenge attack for ditching Wikileaks. Would that be a good thing?
No, it would not. And neither were the original attacks against Wikileaks. You really, really don’t want reciprocal DDoS attacks becoming a commonplace tactic. It’s a very, very bad thing.Originally, I was not particularly concerned about this. “Fuck the Swiss bank, and fuck PayPal”, I thought.
But then, they attacked the website of the Swedish prosecutors. This doesn’t seem like it should be part of the fight for freedom on the internet and freedom of expression in general. So, you have a point. But I still really hate the actions of that Swiss bank and PayPal.
Young’s starting to look a bit batty.
Starting? As per my earlier link, he sure is a little batty, and frankly, a bit of a jerk. There’s some good points in amongst that exchange, but overall… whoa nelly.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Seriatim,
I was trying to be cleverly snide
You managed snide.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don’t know why Cryptome hasn’t had the same exhilarating effect on the world as Wikileaks; why they haven’t been on the front page of the world’s major newspapers,
That’s a really interesting question.
One John Young may partly answer here: Cryptome opposes news, apparently:
What Wikileaks has done lately is choose to become superficial to raise funds, and is now playing the journalism game to fleece and bamboozle the public by braying overmuch about the quality of its product, its reputation, its reliability, its trustworthiness, as you [the L’Espresso journalist interviewing him] are doing. By doing this Wikileaks, and you, have dimnished your credibility.
I understand that Wikileaks and you are required to do this to earn income. I understand that both of you are required to lie about what you are doing to compete with other liars in the media, in government, in education, in religion, in human affairs.
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At the moment you appear to wish that Cryptome do your bidding. To help you produce the vulgar information called news. Cryptome and as once did Wikileaks, opposes news for its superficiality and complicity with advertising to deceive the public.
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Where the two sites differ is that Wikileaks has chosen to adopt authoritative methodologies to vaunt and protect its secret operation, probably under the spell of journalism and to take advantage of undue legal protection of journalists. -
I’m inclined to agree with Seriatim on page 10. The timing alone of the charges leveled against Assange should raise eyebrows,
Do you have the wrong person? I can't see where Seriatim mentioned anything about the sexual assault allegations.
and one should be able to question their authenticity without being labeled a misogynist.
And one should be able to question some aspects of WikiLeaks without being accused of "journalist-envy".
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Seriatim,
The air is thick with journalist-envy. So he’s famous, he has ‘groupies’ (RB), he’s done something that none of the rest you will ever have the skill or the courage to do
Yeah. If RB could’ve invented WikiLeaks, he would’ve invented WikiLeaks!
Come on girls!
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Sacha,
Egads. That really is ridiculous. I hope basically everyone links to, or comments on, these documents in some way, so they have to make a choice: either they can't employ anyone new, or they have to stop being idiots.