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Comment by MisterBastahrd | Hacker News Reader

Assange has been using Wikileaks as human shields against his own terrible behavior for years. If they're collateral damage, then they're only that way because he made it that way.

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Your allegations of "terrible behavior" are false, conveyed by intelligence agencies directly out of your keyboard, intended to short-circuit actual thinking on freedom of information.

The fun thing about freedom of information is that it ceases to be that way when you act as a gatekeeper. Poor little Julian had political axes to grind using information that didn't belong to him and thought that to be a journalist, all he had to do was claim to be one. His ego outmatched his wits, and that's why he's in the situation he finds himself.

Right, because information is best delivered in the service of the Rich and Powerful. Journalists™ and Journ-o-lists are the best form of right-think and certified information.

Even great journalists have editors for a reason.

Got it. We need properly-placed editors to govern the flow of information, to ensure the well-being of the Rich and Powerful.

No, we need editors so half-cocked idiots don't ruin the credibility of their entire organization.

Understood. Credibility derives from whether or not the people who receive information like it or not.

No, but I can understand how someone committed to being an ideologue might pretend to think that. Just turn your brain off and pretend you're carrying that cross.

That's pretty mean for hacker news. I think you've broken the rules.

I've noticed a pattern that attacks against Assange supporters are tolerated here.

Totally. Because having a negative opinion of Assange due to his rhetoric, behavior, and hypocrisy is simply showered with positivity here. So enjoyable to have people talk past you in an insulting manner because they hate addressing your points directly.

I stand behind this dialogue as testament to the full strength of your argument and the quality of your logic.

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