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Knowledge has always flowed u...

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

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We get information in the mai...

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

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We always expect tremendous c...

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

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It is the role of good journa...

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

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The penetration of society by...

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

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Whistleblowers often take ver...

Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks.

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The supply of leaks is very l...

The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

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Every law, every constitution...

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

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In my role as Wikileaks edito...

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

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Wikileaks is a mechanism to m...

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

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Democratic societies need a s...

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

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We released 400,000 classifie...

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

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It's interesting that Swiss b...

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

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What is the possible benefit?...

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.

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We don't have sources who are...

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

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Journalists always like an ex...

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

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My family has had to move and...

My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

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We have a way of dealing with...

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.

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When Enron collapsed, through...

When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.

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Cryptography is the essential...

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

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