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" You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you. "
Julian Assange
Someone
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Own
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" 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. "
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" I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. "
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" To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. "
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" If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. "
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" To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats. "
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" Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. "
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