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Julian Assange confirms Cambridge Analytica sought WikiLeaks' help

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Watch the Republicans claim Wikileaks is anti-republican, the democrats claim they're anti-Democrat...

Yet when the entire primary source is published the only bias is between your own ears.

Corruption on all sides is rife. You should be worried about that.

>Yet when the entire primary source is published the only bias is between your own ears.

This is only true if there is never any editorialization with regard to which primary sources are published.

Wikileaks is famously silent when it comes to Russia: Assange famously bragged about ‘kompromat’ they held and planned to dump on Putin, kompromat which never materialized - then subsequently censored Syrian leaks to hide evidence of Russian bank transfers.

I wonder if this attitude has anything to do with the TV deal Assange signed with Russian state media. Others, like Pussy Riot, have confronted Assange on these facts and he was conspicuously quiet.

I think this idea is a serious, highly consequential error (when broadly accepted). It's the corrupt and criminal who say, 'everybody does it'.[0] If you study the professional practice of propaganda, you'll find that they use this argument too - it covers for them and attempts to paralyze their targets (which is commonly the true aim of propaganda - confusion and paralysis). There are very important, consequential differences between people and between organizations; some should be trusted, some supported, ignored, opposed, shunned, and some should be jailed. It's all the difference between a just, functional, prosperous and free society on one hand, and on the other hand a corrupt one where such things are despairingly accepted as inevitable. We can do and have done much better than that.

[0] To avoid any doubt: The parent commenter is not a criminal; the ideas are the same.

The point is not whether criminals are democrat or republican, the point is to weed them out either way.

Yet when the entire primary source is published the only bias is between your own ears.

This was true, up until the point Julian Assange started providing political commentary every day on Twitter. There are also other ways of being biased..

I understand that Julian Assange HATES HRC but I think 99% of other people don't understand the feud between the two.

How is this not a Cyber Watergate IF this is true?

Hillary (allegedly) said of Julian: "Can't we just drone this guy?".

Can you blame the guy for being a little sore about it? I might hold a grudge, too.

'Drone this guy' in an embassy in the middle of London?

I wasn't there, so I don't know what happened, but the allegation is that Hillary said this in November 2010, when he was a free man.

Here's a trailer to a new documentary on this: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/trumpingdemocracy

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