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+ | =====Julian Assange' | ||
- | Stefania Maurizi on how Julian Assange changed journalism | + | See also [[Assange' |
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+ | === How Assange changed journalism === | ||
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+ | Stefania Maurizi on how Julian Assange changed journalism: | ||
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+ | WikiLeaks has been repeatedly found by courts to be a media organization. | ||
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+ | WikiLeaks receives censored and restricted documents anonymously after Julian Assange invented the first anonymous secure online submission system for documents from journalistic sources. For years it was the only such system of its kind, but secure anonymous dropboxes are now seen as essential for many major news and human rights organizations. | ||
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+ | WikiLeaks publications have been cited in tens of thousands of articles and academic papers and have been used in numerous court cases promoting human rights and human rights defenders. For example, documents published by WikiLeaks were recently successfully used in the International Court of Justice over the UK's illegal depopulation of the Chagos Islands, which were cleared to make way for a giant US military base at the largest Island, Diego Garcia. The Islanders have been fighting for decades for recognition. | ||
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+ | Julian Assange pioneered large international collaborations to secure maximum spread and contextual analysis of large whistleblower leaks. For " | ||
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+ | === How WikiLeaks opened our eyes to the illusion of freedom === | ||
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+ | "Not only have we learned a lot about the illegal activities of the US and other great powers. Not only have the WikiLeaks revelations put secret services on the defensive and set in motion legislative acts to better control them. WikiLeaks has achieved much more: millions of ordinary people have become aware of the society in which they live. Something that until now we silently tolerated as unproblematic is rendered problematic." | ||
+ | - Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities | ||
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+ | === Extradition trial witness statements === | ||
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+ | * See the statements by Trevor Timm (Freedom of the Press Foundation), | ||
+ | * For a better notion of how Assange and WikiLeaks' | ||
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+ | === Assange revelations among most important in US history, says Daniel Ellsberg === | ||
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