Wikileaks - It's time to open the archives

[laptop]

Anyway.

A Swedish politician having given the US the opportunity to change the story from US diplomacy to Assange...

What we need now are the US diplomatic cables with instructions on how to help get Assange.

Please?

 

[elbows]

I don't know who a good number of those people are, but why would the pm of Turkey be so high?

Blockade-busting.

 

[xes]

The more hard line Islamists in the government wanted to ban the festive season completely, but, in a tight referendum, the PM got Turkey to vote for Christmas.

 

[DexterTCN]

Columbia University seems to have reversed itself.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/columbia-wikileaks-policy/

SIPA Professor Gary Sick, the prominent Middle East expert who served on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan, went even further in repudiating the memo.

“If anyone is a master’s student in international relations and they haven’t heard of WikiLeaks and gone looking for the documents that relate to their area of study, then they don’t deserve to be a graduate student in international relations,

Fair point.

 

[Santino]

Assange has been arrested in London.

 

[TomUS]

Assange has been arrested in London.

He's in deep shit. The Brits have silenced him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11937110

 

[Crispy]

"By appointment" apparently. This mean he went quietly?

 

[Santino]

Can anyone link to a good account of the charges against him?

 

[kained&able]

can't see it being a short process to extradite him, somehow.

dave

 

[strung out]

obviously all this info is available elsewhere, but this site is useful to hand to dickheads who go on about how wikileaks is a bad thing http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com/

 

[stethoscope]

obviously all this info is available elsewhere, but this site is useful to hand to dickheads who go on about how wikileaks is a bad thing http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com/

Likes.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

obviously all this info is available elsewhere, but this site is useful to hand to dickheads who go on about how wikileaks is a bad thing http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com/

Cheers - I think that link may have to go on my fb status later

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

"By appointment" apparently. This mean he went quietly?

It means the police phoned him and arranged a time for him to present himself at a designated police station. No screaming sirens and handcuffs. It's what the police do every day when they wish to interview people under caution.

 

[bendeus]

Now that they've frozen WL and JA's accounts does anyone have any idea of a safe route for donating (for his defence fund, etc.)? I don't particularly want to chuck some money their way only to see it whisked away.

 

[xes]

I doubt they'll extradite him, the insurance file might get unlocked.

 

[Kanda]

It means the police phoned him and arranged a time for him to present himself at a designated police station. No screaming sirens and handcuffs. It's what the police do every day when they wish to interview people under caution.

His lawyers negotiated it.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

His lawyers negotiated it.

Yep, all perfectly normal.

 

[Will2403]

Regarding the Time Person of the Year...

Shouldn't it be "Julian Assange and Bradley Manning" or "Julian Assange & Unnamed Leaker".

Seeing how Bradley Manning did the tricky and life sacrificing bit, bit of a nob for blabbing about it though but nevermind.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Mr Assange is due to appear at City of Westminster magistrates' court today, at around 14:00 GMT.

A Wikileaks spokesman told the Press Association that the arrest would in no way obstruct the release of US cable documents and that the organisation would continue to function from London and elsewhere.

A little while later, Wikileaks tweeted: "Today's actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won't affect our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal."

source

"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."

 

[Santino]

It's a bit like a Neal Stephenson novel.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

http:// torrents.thepiratebay.org/5723136/WikiLeaks_insurance.5723136.TPB.torrent
torrents.thepiratebay.org
the insurance.....

 

[goldenecitrone]

Is it time to start burning down branches of IKEA yet?

 

[pk]

Is it time to start burning down branches of IKEA yet?

I'm ready to start boycotting ABBA...

 

[goldenecitrone]

I'm ready to start boycotting ABBA...

This is Julian's Waterloo I suppose.

 

[Diamond]

What do people think about the argument that wikileaks can be self-defeating.

I.e. it's ethos is to encourage culture of disclosure through offering leakers anonymity but that this might also discourage any culture of disclosure amongst its targets.

 

[badseed]

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1

Just released from The Australian

 

[xes]

Daily Mash on it again
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...olice-at-the-top-of-some-stairs-201012073327/

 

[joustmaster]

its interesting that #wikileaks isn't trending on the twitter. My feed is full of it.

 

[Kanda]

its interesting that #wikileaks isn't trending on the twitter. My feed is full of it.

They reckon they're not censoring it. There's a few analysis out there that reckon they are...

http://studentactivism.net/2010/12/05/wikileaks-twitter-3/
http://jotman.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-was-wikileaks-not-trending-topic-on.html
http://bubbloy.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/twitter-is-censoring-the-discussion-of-wikileaks/

 

[joustmaster]

i'm pretty sure they are.
at least it seems that way from my scientifically worked out poll of "just having a bit of a look"