<story><title>Wikileaks Documentary Makers Accuse Assange of Censorship</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-documentary-makers-accuse-assange-censorship-626613</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>19eightyfour</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know why people still support Assange so clearly. It was interesting to me that people on &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;The_Donald love Assange so much. Before this documentary, I posted there criticising Wikileaks and it was totally hated on. I find that weird because the idea that Assange is unreliable and fake, was the kind of somewhat-counter-main-narrative idea that I thought people of T_D would appreciate. They seem to see him as some sort of hero. I wanted to point out that he seems to me to have once been good, but then he squandered by trading whatever his mission originally was, with some bullshit idea of being a martyr to serve his ego. I can&amp;#x27;t respect someone who talks about curing the world of ignorance, and having the courage to tell the truth, but then cowers for 7 years in a embassy because he&amp;#x27;s too afraid to stand up and tell the truth, whatever it was, about what happened. I mean, I know his existence is useful to the IC and various interests, but I personally just find him disgusting. And I genuinely had some belief in what Wikileaks could have stood for. But I don&amp;#x27;t really see it as that now. To me, Wikileaks and Assange totally sold out. Sorry to offend anyone who feels very differently. This is just my opinion on it.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t know why he was so hell-bent against the movie then noticed this side link in the article: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newsweek.com&amp;#x2F;documentary-inside-julian-assange-world-593037&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newsweek.com&amp;#x2F;documentary-inside-julian-assange-wo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Assange comes off as a real machiavellian style asshole with vanity and manipulation seeming to him at least as important as his cause.&lt;p&gt;Snowden and Assange often seem to get lumped together but there&amp;#x27;s a world of difference in personal character, and also in mission. Saying such varied and complex issues are all just &amp;quot;leaking&amp;quot; does both their supporters and detractors a disservice.  Details matter especially with so much at stake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>It seem political when people criticize Assange political refuge to a embassy. There need to be some insight to show why it is not political. It also need to explain from a historical (ie scientifically) why the actions are not rational.&lt;p&gt;I personally have collected enough reason to be very skeptical against such criticism. The first Swedish prosecutor dropped the case. When it was restarted by a second prosecutor, several uninvolved lawyers looked into the case on behalf on news agencies and conclude that the case had zero chance of going anywhere. When compared to rape cases in Sweden that get dropped, get not-guilty in court, and the small number that get a guilty verdict, you either need to have physical evidence of violence&amp;#x2F;drugs where a medical expert use their experience to claim rape, a video recording, witnesses that strongly (and seems more common than not to fail here) to show that the victim was incapacitated when going to sleep, or a confession. In contrast to most cases all the details for Assange case has been leaked and it has shown none of those critical components for a successful case. In addition we get some more warning clocks ringing when the European arrest warrant made a record for the lowest number of potential year in prison. A second record was achieved by the the amount of money spent in regard to the number of potential year in prison.&lt;p&gt;It could be a unicorn, a one of the kind where all the stars align to a guilty verdict, but the case smells political. The rational behavior when the legal system turn political is to run and hide.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wikileaks Documentary Makers Accuse Assange of Censorship</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-documentary-makers-accuse-assange-censorship-626613</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>19eightyfour</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know why people still support Assange so clearly. It was interesting to me that people on &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;The_Donald love Assange so much. Before this documentary, I posted there criticising Wikileaks and it was totally hated on. I find that weird because the idea that Assange is unreliable and fake, was the kind of somewhat-counter-main-narrative idea that I thought people of T_D would appreciate. They seem to see him as some sort of hero. I wanted to point out that he seems to me to have once been good, but then he squandered by trading whatever his mission originally was, with some bullshit idea of being a martyr to serve his ego. I can&amp;#x27;t respect someone who talks about curing the world of ignorance, and having the courage to tell the truth, but then cowers for 7 years in a embassy because he&amp;#x27;s too afraid to stand up and tell the truth, whatever it was, about what happened. I mean, I know his existence is useful to the IC and various interests, but I personally just find him disgusting. And I genuinely had some belief in what Wikileaks could have stood for. But I don&amp;#x27;t really see it as that now. To me, Wikileaks and Assange totally sold out. Sorry to offend anyone who feels very differently. This is just my opinion on it.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t know why he was so hell-bent against the movie then noticed this side link in the article: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newsweek.com&amp;#x2F;documentary-inside-julian-assange-world-593037&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newsweek.com&amp;#x2F;documentary-inside-julian-assange-wo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Assange comes off as a real machiavellian style asshole with vanity and manipulation seeming to him at least as important as his cause.&lt;p&gt;Snowden and Assange often seem to get lumped together but there&amp;#x27;s a world of difference in personal character, and also in mission. Saying such varied and complex issues are all just &amp;quot;leaking&amp;quot; does both their supporters and detractors a disservice.  Details matter especially with so much at stake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lingben</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve observed that Trump and his supporters live in a childishly simple world where anything and anyone who says &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; or supportive things is hailed and anyone who criticizes or questions Trump is derided and held in contempt, irrespective of any actual factual basis.</text></comment>