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Joanne98

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Thu Jan-13-11 07:43 AM
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Wikileaks Founder: Our Enemy is China

Source: WSJ

Wikileaks may have targeted the US with its ongoing releases of sensitive State Department documents, but China is its real “technological enemy,” according to founder Julian Assange.

In an interview with the left-leaning British weekly magazine the New Statesman, Assange called China the “worst offender” for its censorship of information online.

“China has aggressive and sophisticated technology that places itself between every reader inside China and every information source outside China,” Assange told the magazine. “We’ve been fighting a running battle to make sure we can get information through.”

Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/13/wikileaks-founder-our-enemy-is-china/

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One_Life_To_Give

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Thu Jan-13-11 07:55 AM
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1. The enemy of my enemy?

True enough about China. But also may lessen pressure from the US Right. Which begs the question. Is he really going after China? Or is this just posturing to try and get the US to back off some? Probably somewhere in the middle.

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Joanne98

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Thu Jan-13-11 07:57 AM
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2. If Wikileaks has people in China he's probably worried about them.

Not a good place for whistleblowers.

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One_Life_To_Give

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Thu Jan-13-11 08:00 AM
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4. If the party bosses wern't aware of it before

I fail to see how making a public statement now would help any informants he may have inside China.

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FreakinDJ

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Thu Jan-13-11 08:02 AM
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5. Will even if he has some information about China

Edited on Thu Jan-13-11 08:03 AM by FreakinDJ

the Chinese people will never see it - that is what he is trying to say

And with China making ALL the computer chips that have this "Special Encoding" already encrypted into the CPU's infrastructure, just what to you think it would take for the U.S. government to "Turn On" the filter

That is the larger message he is trying to get out

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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Jan-13-11 08:53 AM
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7. An interview with John Pilger in the New Statesman isn't where I'd place a message to the US Right

I'd say he actually means it.

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harvey007

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Thu Jan-13-11 09:20 AM
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8. We should all be standing up to the Chinese government

It is an evil empire, the modern day moral equivalent to Nazi Germany, made worse because of technology that allows the Chinese government to absolutely control every aspect of its citizens' lives and lethally eliminate anyone who dares to question or protest.

http://www.hrw.org/node/95392

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/world/asia/29china.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-14-death-van_x.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1425570.stm

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Luminous Animal

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Fri Jan-14-11 02:04 AM
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11. Wikileaks can't "go after" China without sources. People act as if Wikileaks is a spy org.

It isn't. It is a media org that can only report on information that it receives.

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xchrom

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Thu Jan-13-11 07:59 AM
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3. recommend

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pokerfan

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Thu Jan-13-11 08:22 AM
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6. The Great Firewall of China

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China">Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China

The apparatus of the PRC's Internet repression is considered more extensive and more advanced than in any other country in the world. The regime not only blocks website content but also monitors the Internet access of individuals. Amnesty International notes that China “has the largest recorded number of imprisoned journalists and cyber-dissidents in the world.” The offences of which they are accused include communicating with groups abroad, opposing the persecution of the Falun Gong, signing online petitions, and calling for reform and an end to corruption.

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nalnn

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Thu Jan-13-11 02:34 PM
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9. I'll buy that for a dollar!

Now that's something I'd like to see! Imagine an army (in the loosest sense of the word) whose sole purpose is to break through the Great Firewall and inform the Chinese masses. A decentralized, non-national movement. Armed with the internet and the tools to make it happen...

I can dream can't I?

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Kurovski

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Fri Jan-14-11 02:01 AM
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10. K&R. (nt)

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