‘You can expect everything’: what next for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?

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‘You can expect everything’: what next for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
theguardian.com

As Julian Assange enjoys his first weekend of freedom in years, there appeared to be no question in the mind of his wife, Stella, about what the family’s priorities were.

The WikiLeaks co-founder would need time to recover, she told reporters after they were reunited in his native Australia, after a deal with US authorities that allowed him to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified defence documents.

What comes after that is one of the most intriguing questions for anyone familiar with how the site he founded in 2006 utterly changed the nature of whistleblowing. Will it return to its original mission?

James Harkin, the director of the London-based Centre for Investigative Journalism, (said) “In retrospect, it’s striking that everything WikiLeaks published was true – no small feat in the era of “disinformation” – but the tragedy is that much of its energy and ethos has now passed to blowhards and conspiracy theorists. Perhaps, in the light of our tepid new involvements in the Middle East and Ukraine, we need a new WikiLeaks.”

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Can you tell the truth?

I just did. Can you ask a non-loaded question?

You did not.

Simple yes or no question: Have you stopped eating poop off the sidewalk?

False analogy is false

You couldn't even answer a simple question? Wow, I guess you're dishonest!

False analogy is false

Repeating yourself doesn't make you any less dishonest.

And refusing to answer basic questions in an attempt to be infinity-meta doesn't make you profound. Get your last word in, and enjoy the block list.

I'm not trying to be profound, I was making a simple point. Just because you refuse to recognize it, doesn't mean you didn't ask a loaded question. Sorry to hear that you couldn't handle this and had to run to your block list to shield yourself from minimal pushback.