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born 1971 Australia
Julian Paul Assange (born Julian Paul Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer. He founded WikiLeaks in 2006, and came to international attention in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning.
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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
If wars can be started with lies, they can be stopped by truth.
Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them.
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they’re going on.
Citizens have a right and a duty to scrutinise the state.
Pope Francis never stopped championing peace, compassion, and justice. A true ally in the fight for Julian Assange’s freedom. May he rest in peace.
I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
The Economist (2011)
Our No. 1 enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the No. 1 enemy for everyone — it's not understanding what actually is going on in the world.
Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.
The Economist (2011)
This is the impenetrable banality of "don't be evil," They believe that they are doing good. And that is a problem.
Julian Assange, "When Google Met Wikileaks (2014)
Censorship represents Fear by Big Information. 'Stopping leaks' is a new form of censorship.
In my experience it is more reliable and fairer to look at peoples interests and expenditure rather than try to diagnose their inner mental state, as the latter often lets people project their own biases.
The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.
That’s arguably what spy agencies do — high-tech investigative journalism. It’s time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.
I never had a mentor. I was forced to make myself up as I went along.
The Economist (2011)
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.
We are creating a space behind us that permits a form of journalism which lives up to the name that journalism has always tried to establish for itself. We are creating that space because we are taking on the criticism that comes from robust exposure of powerful groups.
I think that the instincts human beings have are actually much better than the societies that we have. (p. 118)
Julian Assange, "When Google Met Wikileaks (2014)
Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.
If it was the case that WikiLeaks grew to be a very large and powerful media group and remained there for a long time, of course we would enter into the same elite power relationships and would become corrupted by it.
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