Well I wouldn ' t jump at distrust , but the questions are met with silence and derision . The same silence we ' re getting when we ask questions to Riseup like are you under a gag order . I think about it like this What would Julian Assange think if he was in my situation ? Here ' s a guy who encrypts and signs everything , who ' s displayed incredible integrity . and suddenly nothing is signed , cats are tweeting , his email server has removed the Canary , his twitter and fb is suddenly hostile and blocking people , there are secret messages being sent via bitcoin , and he hasn ' t been seen in over a month . I wonder what he thought when Seth Rich was killed , or when Michael Hastings died . This skepticism is the very definition of Assange ' s methodology . I feel people are justified here until there is some transparency here . If WL is moving on without him , let ' s see the interim figurehead . Let ' s see their hashes . Let ' s have Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky visit and vet them . If not , let ' s see Assange . Let ' s see his PGP . It ' s super simple . It really is . It ' s the same as someone handing you a printout with Washington Post written on it in marker . Maybe we can come at this strange change , but as with all extraordinary claims it requires extraordinary proof . These proofs are not only necessary , but they ' re easy . That ' s what the really hard pill to swallow is .