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" The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation. "
Julian Assange
Society
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" We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on. "
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" I believe that the way to justice is education. "
Julian Assange
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I Believe
Justice
" We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. "
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Industry
" By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have. "
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" As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. "
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Media
" That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. "
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People
Problem
" The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. "
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Corruption
Early
" Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. "
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" I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform. "
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People
Experience
Knowledge
" I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal. "
Julian Assange
Deal
Am
Country
" Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers. "
Julian Assange
Journalism
Respect
Direction
" True information does good. "
Julian Assange
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Information
Good
" We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. "
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People
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Forward
" The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. "
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People
More
Industry
" Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. "
Julian Assange
Treasure
Greatest
Intellectual
" The media helps keep government honest. "
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Keep
Honest
Media
" I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time. "
Julian Assange
Book
Time
Involved
" When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. "
Julian Assange
Prison
Look
Book
" Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. "
Julian Assange
Internet
Over
Independence
" In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. "
Julian Assange
World
Safe
Fighting
" I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election. "
Julian Assange
Result
Election
Back
" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "
Julian Assange
Controversial
Good
Nature
" It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring. "
Julian Assange
Swiss
Bank
Assets
" As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly. "
Julian Assange
Speed
Been
Ability
" These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. "
Julian Assange
Going
Increase
Important
" In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. "
Julian Assange
Out
Nobody
Material
" It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. "
Julian Assange
Powerful
Journalism
Bad
" We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure. "
Julian Assange
Labels
Criminal
People
" I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. "
Julian Assange
Economics
World
Political
" We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit. "
Julian Assange
Work
Credit
Organization