WikiLeaks film script leaked to WikiLeaks

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76 points·gebe··16 comments

Pretty standard, if effective, propaganda tactic. All "they" have to do is stick the words "Based on a True Story" somewhere in there, and they can diverge however far they want from the facts, yet people will still gobble it up.

Reminds me of what I thought how US government should have responded to cable leaks. All they had to respond with was with: Indeed, SOME of the leaks are ours/true. End of story, no one would be sure anymore what is true, what is false.

The finest demonstration of that is the turd, sorry film Pearl Harbour....

Agree. However, I have doubts on Assange's credibility. Although I am inclined to believe what Assange had said, Assange absconded bail which was posted by his friends and supporters.

Given the circumstances, I know no individual who would have done otherwise.

If this is all they found on him, I think he's likely more credible than many of us :)

On a side note, it is a known tactics in politics - discredit your opponent early, for when he talks, nobody will listen. As an added bonus, it diverts attention from the actual matter (leaked materials) to a character debate.

Probably a delibrate act to get publicity on the part of the filmmakers!

Link for the lazy 'Julian Assange at the Oxford Union': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQNWYnQjUE

Will the movie touch upon this particularly meta plot point?

And then will that get released to WikiLeaks?

Recursion!

Not sure if there's recursion yet. Will the movie touch upon this particularly meta plot point?

(Okay, trying too hard on that one, heh?)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5118838

(There. Now it's an infinite recursion.)

Poetic!

INCEPTION

This seems appropriate.

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