Anonymoose strikes again. I've been seeing calls for blood up and down the /b/. Some of it was actually going after Assange for taking credit while his sources for the documents get thrown in prison!
We now have Swiss banks, Mastercard, Paypal, a variety of US-influenced businesses, and who knows how many governments lining up to nail Julian Assange to curry the USA's favor. This is a stupid joke, but... the US is about to make this statement come true:
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Taking him down will not stop Wikileaks. Cutting off the funding won't stop it, since it's all volunteer anyway. They'll simply move their releases to torrent or darknets and that is then that. They'll filter it out direct to the media and become a faceless cloud. Well played, my government. You've accomplished nothing but incense an entire culture, escalate a political and ideological fight to absurd heights, and gift-wrapped and handed it a martyr/Christ figure.
because the swiss bank has such a track record of morality. See also every drug kingpin, us banks, dictators, it's almost if like if you need a swiss bank account you are guilty of something.
Hm, I don't know. Knocking over their website with a DDoS attack is hardly all the Gibsonian. The Panther Moderns and associated hacker team would infiltrate the bank's actual network and scramble all the account data, whilst pinching several mil for themselves and Assange's defence.
It's always been here... just not evenly distributed.
Government deserves Privacy as much as Corporations do - not at all. They're not People.
It's like journalists still have the image of geeks pounding at DOS screens over a bad techno soundtrack like we're in 1992.
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Taking him down will not stop Wikileaks. Cutting off the funding won't stop it, since it's all volunteer anyway. They'll simply move their releases to torrent or darknets and that is then that. They'll filter it out direct to the media and become a faceless cloud. Well played, my government. You've accomplished nothing but incense an entire culture, escalate a political and ideological fight to absurd heights, and gift-wrapped and handed it a martyr/Christ figure.
I prefer to call them scriptkidlings.
because the swiss bank has such a track record of morality. See also every drug kingpin, us banks, dictators, it's almost if like if you need a swiss bank account you are guilty of something.
Wha!? You mean it's not like this?