Um, I Think It's Time for a Thread on WikiLeaks

so, predictably, and sadly (disgustingly, etc), the Anonymous ppl have found and made public the names/faces/contact info of the women accusing assange. i won't link to it for obv reasons, and i certainly didn't go looking for it: it's on the front page of a popular news aggregator.

Their names have been in the ether for weeks and weeks; the Times of India also published them this week.

smh at the last line of this letter to the Guardian…

We protest at the attacks on WikiLeaks and, in particular, on Julian Assange (Report, 9 December) The leaks have assisted democracy in revealing the real views of our governments over a range of issues which have been kept secret and are now irreversibly in the public domain. All we knew about the mass killing, torture and corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan has been confirmed. The world's leaders can no longer hide the truth by simply lying to the public. The lies have been exposed. The actions of major corporations such as Amazon, the Swiss banks and the credit card companies in hindering WikiLeaks are shameful, bowing to US government pressure. The US government and its allies, and their friends in the media, have built up a campaign against Assange which now sees him in prison facing extradition on dubious charges, with the presumed eventual aim of ensuring his extradition to the US. We demand his immediate release, the dropping of all charges, and an end to the censorship of WikiLeaks.

John Pilger, Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition, Salma Yaqoob, Craig Murray, Alexei Sayle, Mark Thomas, Caryl Churchill, AL Kennedy, Celia Mitchell, Ben Griffin (former soldier), Terry Jones, Sami Ramadani, Roger Lloyd Pack, David Gentleman, Miriam Margolyes, Andy de la Tour, Katharine Hamnett, Iain Banks

what's a little sex by surprise among free speech advocates

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4d00e452ccd1d5f878050000/hackers-movie-assange-editorial-sidebar.jpg

so glad this evil calumny has finally been exposed

so. i just got a robocall from the quebec civil court informing me that my ISP gave them my info re: having read wikileaks and i am being added to a pending case that could result in SIGNIFICANT fines.

25% is this for real? 25% oh, sigh, how predictable, 50% want to go watch 'Brazil'

http://twitter.com/alexostroff/status/13328797394800640

Just got a robo-call from the Quebec Court informing me that I was added to a civil case for reading classified #wikileaks docs. 2000$ fine. 44 minutes ago via web

xp - ouch

holy shit

Matthew Bennell: [dials his phone] I'll get the police.
Telephone Operator: [voice] Police.
Matthew Bennell: Officer, I'd like to report four bodies in my backyard.
Telephone Operator: Wait right there Mr. Bennell.
Matthew Bennell: How do you know my name?
Jack Bellicec: [Jack's eyes widen with fear] Hang up, Matthew.
Matthew Bennell: [into the phone] I didn't tell you my name.
Jack Bellicec: Hang up!
Matthew Bennell: [hangs up the phone] I didn't tell them my name!
Nancy Bellicec: That's because they're all part of it. They're all pods, all of them!

Wait, how is this possible? The only people who are endangered by reading the documents are US federal employees afaik.

wait wtf alex???

canada got no 1st amendment

how is the case civil and not criminal?

i have like a billion questions about this. so fucked.

contact the phone company, trace the call, get us some answers dammit

yeah doesn't make any sense to me (who is bringing the suit? how can it be a crime to read something? etc.) but I know fuck all about Canadian law

sounds like bs

yeah, i mean, i have half a mind to think it's a scam of some kind. but i've no idea how canadian law works.

are you usually notified that you're a party to a suit by robocall?

holy fucking shit

it could well be a scam but well, what's the hypothetical point of said scam

get your data? fuck i dunno

yeah, a cursory google search suggests that someone is fucking with you

yeah. i am of the opinion now that someone is fucking with me, but to what end. and given that the phone number listed in caller ID matched the number provided on the Montreal division of the Civil Court of Quebec. and given that they didn't ask for any information?

like...no you are not normally notified by robocall that you are party to a suit, nor are you usually warned in advance that you are underinvestigation by things you have not yet been charged with BUT who would stand to gain from fake calls to canadians re: wikileaks.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSnuQF7cy1yFFxKcLPQ_lLoMwK1Qn-YUDDhScaydgPoR2SlLyWI

is pranknet still around?

This Assange guy has a fangirl Tumblr dedicated to him that boarders on the creepy, pages upon pages full of fan art and gushing over how "hawt" he is with the white hair. Is Tumblr the new LiveJournal or something?

For me, WikiLeaks case isn't even exciting. I don't think we'll be seeing people with "Free Julian Assange" signatures in tech forums like Usenet users did during Kevin Mitnick's case two decades ago.

Is Tumblr the new LiveJournal or something?

Its the establishment 4chan via Twitter?

whoa, just re-reading this thread, did caek and history mayne think i was posting the ralph nader citation in comment to the comments right above mine on the issue of what constitutes rape? i came here to post that and didn't read the most recent comments before i submitted the post...

i've seriously been wondering for two days what the hell they were on about

i can't remember. iirc you were saying that nader being framed was a bit like assange being done for rape. i was saying, nader being deliberately set up is different from assange having something he actually did used as a tool to bring him down for "other reasons".

sorry if i wasn't clear about that. a member of my immediate family is a rape victim - i definitely wouldn't make that assertion if assange had actually done something. rereading my post it looks like i was commenting on what someone was saying earlier, but i was trying to make a general comment.

e.g., if assange is prosecuted for something he actually did he is in no way like nader. sorry i really want to clarify that.

I don't think we'll be seeing people with "Free Julian Assange" signatures in tech forums like Usenet users did during Kevin Mitnick's case two decades ago.

No?
http://images.theage.com.au/2010/12/12/2091504/protestmain-300x340.jpg

Free Assange is so fucking gauche.

Those were called "Julian Assange masks" on some news site (possibly bbcnews). They either don't know they're V For Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks or Assange has started growing face hair in jail.

It was bbc, but they've corrected it already: it was the photo caption here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11977406

The whole v for vendetta/anonymous /b/tards thing is cringeworthy, tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1GulEPb-z8&feature=player_embedded

I know this makes me a BAD person but, erm... Link to the Tumblr pls?

Because I have been calling Rule 34 on Julian Assange Prison Slash for several days now and LiveJournal has not come up with the goods.

::slinks off guiltily at the poor taste::

lol

'un chant d'assange'

lol kdt

Was this posted yet?

http://www.okcupid.com/profile/HarryHarrison

last online dec 31, 2006 so you know it aint a fake

throw away the key tbh

LOL

The Slut Test 87% Slut

cia black ops hit new low

The Are you Dominant or submissive Test 87% - The Master

The do you understand women Test 73 sensitivity

The Alignment Test Chaotic Neutral

Interesting you can see his profile even not logged into okc. Cant anyone else's i know.

yes you can

i do it all the time