Julian Assange and the Streisand Effect.
By: - 6:45 pm, January 7th, 2019 - 23 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, capitalism, class war, crime, Deep stuff, Ethics, International, law, Media,suppression orders, you couldn't make this shit up - Tags: alleged rapist, julian assange, law, wikileaks
Categories: Abuse of power, capitalism, class war, crime, Deep stuff, Ethics, International, law, Media,suppression orders, you couldn't make this shit up - Tags: alleged rapist, julian assange, law, wikileaks
One of the weirdest episodes in the history of Wikileaks is playing out right now.
The anti-democracy organisation, who are too chicken to challenge capital but are paid to lower trust in state institutions, have sent a group of media outlets a list of140 things they are ‘not allowed to say’ about accused rapist and bail dodger Julian Assange.
The full list has not yet been published (and the so called transparency organisation ironically refuses to release it). However, it won’t be long before the Assange 140 is public knowledge.
It’s the Streisand Effect.
Whenever a public figure threatens to sue for defamation, the ‘net instantly wants to know what the supposedly false claims are.
Whether they’re true or not ceases to be the point. We all just want to laugh at the person stupid enough to publicise the things they wanted hidden.
For Assange, this could be devastating. On a human level, I can emphasise with a person who has locked themselves away from normal human contact for years. It’s bound to be depressing holing up in a couple of small rooms in a vain attempt to avoid justice.
No wonder he couldn’t even look after his cat properly or, as is alleged, get around to washing himself.
This threat to journalists’ free speech will fail, as it should. Any media outlet put on notice by Wikipedia’s lawyers should simply use the celebrated response in Arkell v. Pressdram.
Fuck off.
In the meantime, the world is sniggering at Wikileaks’ naivety.
And waiting for the list of 140 things to be released.
I believe it was written to get a reaction.
https://www.rt.com/news/445069-assange-manafort-guardian-russiagate/
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/crucifying-julian-assange/
OK – I’ve said my piece.
Radio silence from now on on this post.
2. Assange had previously been employed by the Russian government
3. Assange is, or has ever been, close to the Russian state, the Kremlin or Putin.
4. Assange bleaches his hair
5. Assange is a hacker,
6. Assange has ever neglected an animal
7. Assange has poor personal hygiene.
And disappointingly ugly tabloid stuff at that
The kitty litter and personal hygiene bullshit, is clearly designed to humiliate.and taunt someone the UN has decreed is being illegally detained.
The UN working committee found that in 2016
Oh but the UN ,huh guys ,those pansies?And Assange bleaches his hair? must be a pansy too.
And what? his organisation is warning reporters to stop rechurning old lies? the hypocrite!We’re dining out on the lies,don’t stop the fun
Forget the cruelty displayed here and take the opportunity to sign Varoufakis’ DIEM25 petition
But you choose to believe it
And it wasnt Wikileaks who told you that
It was the Guardian who first published that,yonks ago, having been given the feed from the new more easily US intimidated Moreno led Ecuador govt. Surely you are not that far behind the eight ball?
Everything Wikileaks asserts are defamatory and libellous lies has already been published .Theres nothing new
What is truly astonishing is that reporters have managed to get away with all of the 140 allegations, stating them as truth, for as long as they have
What is more astonishing is the way journalism has sunk to the point where a fellow journalist can be so attacked by other , I hesitate to give them the title “journalist” reporters. All journalism suffers when these attacks are normalised
I refuse to believe you weren’t aware of that
I’ve read that bullshit multiple times in multiple publications, from the same source repeated ad nauseam.
And here’s you, repeating it as if it was brand new
You never knew about those claims ?..give me a break, you are being totally disingenuous, either that or you really haven’t been paying attention
I’m gobsmacked and wonder if the author had even read the 140 allegations that Wikileaks say are defamatory and libellous at the time he wrote his hitpiece
Wikileaks links to articles that demonstrate why the allegations are untrue.
TRP comes up with nothing but snide taunts
Most unbecoming
We’ve got a punching bag here with his hands tied
Line up all you husky red blooded fellows!
Gag the media my arse
Governments and monied up corporations do that
Whats here is a list of untrue statements that are repeatedly published as if true.
It is making quite clear that these statements are false, defamatory and libellous and why they are so
Many citations provided
Read the thing through and you might learn something
And spare me the faux concern for Assange “exposing him to ridicule”
Its people like you who do that very thing
I doubt your seriousness, taken up with personal hygiene and kitty litter as you are
If by now you have read the 140 allegations you will have seen that the vast majority concern fictitious claims eg Manafort’s visit to Assange that never happened,
Here’s another example
“it is false and defamatory to deny that Julian Assange is an award-winning editor, journalist, publisher, author and producer who has won the highest journalism award in his country, the Walkley, among many others. [https://defend.wikileaks.org/about-julian/]
It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange or WikiLeaks has ever, through intent or negligence, revealed a source [in fact, in the case of alleged source Chelsea Manning, the allegation by the State is that Manning spoke, in a knowing breach of WikiLeaks’ security rules, to a researcher for Wired magazine, Adrian Lamo, who promised him journalistic confidentiality, only to then inform on him to the FBI. Lamo subsequently died in March 2018, aged 37]. ”
Go to the source, read the allegations and the rebuttals, dont just lazily run with a Reuters piece without doing due diligence.
Its incredible to me that you were not aware that every single one of the 140 allegations has already been published, some of them many times.They have been out there in the public domain for some time.
Pay attention
Dont go for the easy sniggers
Assange was granted asylum before the British issued an arrest warrant.