Crap well then hello president trump of its that bad ugh ok I'm being paranoid but holy shit this scares me

voice mails left by people calling in to the DNC office?

Now Assange is a friend of Fox news. What a courageous freedom fighter Rapey Julian is!

Amazing to see you still here!

"I'm being paranoid but holy shit this scares me..."

What specifically leads you to cower?

they celebrate the tidbits of nonsense

This election cycle has truly shined a bright light on the dearth of actual journalism and its replacement by celebrity spokespeople.

Back in the 70s the media personalities were simply called the B List Wantabe Movie Stars. It has only gotten worse.

He thinks it's significant depending on how it catches fire in the public and in the media.

Something significant doesn't need to 'catch fire' - it'll come out burning. lol

and publically displaying people's social security numbers, credit card information, and other personal information.

He is a criminal, and needs to be prosecuted

He is only releasing emails that were hacked. He does not even know the name of the person responsible for the hacks. Just commenting for a bit of clarification. I'm not sure why he is being attacked for releasing info we have a right to know.

or sexual orientation. It's not as if he's releasing the type of information that voters are often privvy to, like tax returns.

doing by releasing data that contained social security numbers and credit cards

He deserves every bit of scorn

He was was part of a hacking group in Australia when he was younger, and arrested for that, so he also has a record of being a thief, and I wouldn't trust anything that comes out of that weasels mouth

He is a bum

two different things:

1. releasing information provided to him is not theft
2. to which extent do you have to 'curate' the information provided to you

The answer to the second question (by Wikileaks/Assange) has differed from case to case. They have spent extraordinary efforts - in cooperation with major media outlets - to look through the files from Afghanistan and the Embassy Cables in order to remove anything that might endanger any individual mentioned.

Still, the false allegation was immediately launched, by Pentagon spokespersons and others, that 'people have to die because of those leaks!!!' and so forth.

In part as a result of media organisations betraying Wikileaks and developing an agenda of their own (Guardian, Spiegel), in part due to the lack of resources, but mostly because their efforts were never acknowledged, they only remove personal information if they can easily detect it and consider it actually, not just in theory, dangerous.

contained personal information on individuals, and the asshole didn't care which individuals were hurt or not.

Assange is no hero, he knows exactly what he is doing.

I hope his stay in the Ecuadorian embassy lasts decades

You probably know nothing about any of that other than what some journalist has told you to think.

You want to defend Assange, be my guest, but don't throw out personal insinuations of what I think or don't think. You don't know me

information released without their permission, are the ones who got hurt.

http://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-just-published-tons-of-personal-data-like-a-b-1784140603

but how were these people hurt and who are they?

Assange already clarified that they did NOT publish the full credit card information of anyone, only the last four digits.

I didn't find any Social Security numbers searching the data base for "contribution", as advised in the article.

credit type and last four digits of the credit card number, and of course the name of the person

All that information was given to the public without anyone's permission.

Will you be donating to Hillary? Either monetarily or phone banking, driving people to the polls on election day.

I guess you must be pretty pumped voting for the first woman president

except, if you pay with your credit card you must give them the full number and not just the last four digits.

Most of these home addresses and phone numbers should be in publically available phone books. I don't know how many spammers have my email address, but I can tell you a lot of them do.

My question to you was: what is the actual damage to the donors whose data were published? How are they being hurt? What is the danger? Another poster tried to convince me that their 'identity' could be stolen, but I remain unconvinced. I don't think this it is enough to even get access to somebody's email account.

damage.

It isn't you that determines whether their was damage or not. People have a right to privacy

Interesting this supposed progressive outlet, WikiLeaks, is effectively making the decision that those individuals don't deserve a right to their privacy, so lets publically display their names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, etc.

Releasing those emails, phone numbers, and addresses, exposes those individuals to stalking, and other unsavory characters.

I doubt you would be very happy if your name, address, phone number, and email(s) addresses were posted here. In fact there have been DUers who have been stalked by and harassed because someone obtained their address and other personal information.

expose the people concerned more to 'stalking' than, say, a phone book?

Do you really think that 'unsavory characters' would make the effort to search for personal information in these Wikileaks databases, of all places?

No, these accusations were made from the beginning, and they were always meant to distract from what the leaks actually do: make information available that is of public interest but would not otherwise see the light of day.

no need to carry this conversation further

to make such information available without asking. But it doesn't make Assange a 'criminal'. And at least we got your false claims in post #8 out of the way (credit card information: nope; social security numbers: I don't think so - perhaps there is one deep down in the huge haystack, but we don't know where). Some progress can always be made, even in such a discussion.

His crimes are not victimless. Gays and lesbians in Saudi Arabia are at risk of their lives, and women who have been raped and outed are very much at risk as well. Did he think that was a big laugh?

When he doxxes millions of innocent bystanders -- such as myself, for instance -- does he think that's funny too?

Think again, Duval.

to try and blow more smoke to make it seem credible and extend the news cycle. I call BS!

The Clinton Foundation. Then you have undercover voters, bigot charges and 24/7 HRC is evil.

This is desperation to it's fullest.

towards the RNC and Trump makes me wonder if perhaps Assange is being paid off somehow to do it or if he is courting the GOP and or the Russians to hopefully get assistance from them say with asylum in Russia or a pledge by the GOP to never to try to extradite him.

I would say nothing you can do will change my vote.
Nothing.

Lotsa heads exploding

this slimy worm (I've never supported this clown) trying to effect an American election. Why is that?

in my opinion he will get the Nobel for Peace, at some point.

I mean, explain exactly what action you would nominate him for.

Should receive a Nobel for.

be the next President of the United States.

Your rapist, accessory to murder criminal hero Assange is a Trump supporter.

meet the criteria?

Thus, no investigation, no charges against the pilots.

Stephen Colbert speculated that Assange was a right wing plant---otherwise why would he put forth an edited video and a story so easily disproven by simply viewing the whole video?


http://www.cc.com/video-clips/5mdm7i/the-colbert-report-exclusive---julian-assange-extended-interview

Colbert knew years ago what Assange was.....

in the unedited video.

You can see it---

Enough already.

....are not on the same page.

Don't hold your breath.

And violating the privacy rape and sexual assault victims: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/08/23/wikileaks-outs-gay-people-in-saudi-arabia-in-reckless-mass-data-dump

and should win Nobel prizes?

Or because he hates someone you hate.

So hard to figure out.

Perhaps you're confused.

Unlike the Leftbart sites you may be used to frequenting, we're not rooting for the Democratic nominee to lose here. Check the TOS.

1.) Assange
2.) Manafort
3.) Nigel Farage <--- THIS is what is really nuts. Brexit guy here in the U.S. campaigning with Trump. Really?

But then they all have one thing in common - they are all part of a dying breed worldwide, and in their minds, this is their last (maybe) gasp attempt at resurrecting their hegemony.

energy companies or the inner working emails for the RNC.
After all so far other than the scandal of DWS and a few other members of the DNC going off the rails over Bernie there has not really been anything major in the DNC emails or any of the other stuff wikileaks has released directed at the Democrats and Hillary but what dirty laundry does the RNC have?

Bad things get dumped, surprisingly. Always big news. Less big news, or non-news, or fictional news, gets hyped before "release".

Generally speaking anyway.

If this douche nozzle had a fatal accident.

So many liberals/democrats supported Assange for is initial release of documents pertaining to attacks in Iraq. So how many of you who supported him, support him now. He is just a piece of shit who wants to make a 15 min of fame name for himself. Stuck in his Ecuadorian "cell", he is just a scumbag releasing stolen papers and info, which in my opinion, most may even be fake, to be a dick.... Fuck You Assange, I hope you rot in your little palace of shit.

... equivalencies?

And take him off that fucking pedestal he's been put on? Never could understand the appeal of this asshole or why so many liberals defend him.

For all I know assange created this stuff himself. Lost all credibility. We need a new wikileaks, it will happen. Wikileaks should not have a monopoly on leaks

... docs that he thinks are juicy, have him divulge them on WL and then say they're fake with proof.

He'll stop doing this shit quick

I don't mind whistle blowers if they're trying to change shit and there's no other avenues but outing peoples SSNs and other data that could get them killed is fucked up.

Whistle blowers need a new place to send their info, wikileaks is sinking. WL will be Gawker soon, trying to save the world by releasing pics of celebs buying weed or something

I've followed them since their Scientology leaks in 2008. Now they act like nothing more than Trump and Putin butt smoochers. They've clearly chosen a side, which seems contrary to what I thought their original mission was.

Nobody gives a shit anymore.

Ever since he has been in Russia, the hacking of the US has gotten more increased and evasive, Snowden is obviously working with Assange who are both in favor of destabilizing the US by trying to get cheetoelected. Because Cheeto will destroy the US if elected. And Putin will roll over Europe and work his way into the US with his puppet Cheeto.

Kick him out, lock the door behind him, and then que sera sera.

That's why he's there - it's certainly not because they give a rat's ass about protecting journalists (to the extent that dumping un-redacted, stolen data, and doxing large groups of vulnerable people could be considered journalism.)

So he thinks that Trump running the US for the next 4 years would be good for the world?

Bizarre if he thinks this.
Bizarre if he doesn't because he's working to make this happen.

Trump has a history of making good with shady characters.
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Would like to know for what.

Black ops.

But a crime of power and control. He is a loser, he hides from his legal problems and he loves to steal that which he is not entitled.

...yawn.

If not for the accuracy and content of the information Edward Snowden & Julian Assange have provided, We the people would be would be duped once again.

You think Assange and Snowden are honorable and guided by some altruistic reason? People who truly believe that they are doing things for the greater good are willing to sacrifice themselves, even die for a righteous cause.

Not hide in an embassy or live in a hostile country.

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What an asshole.