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Julian Assange of WikiLeaks – Oslo Freedom Forum 2010

May 30, 2011


Julian Assange is a spokesman and advisory board member of WikiLeaks, a transparency website whose mission is to “open governments” and expose human rights abuses. It has a core focus on protecting dissidents, whistleblowers, investigative journalists, and bloggers who face state threats, and it largely operates by publishing leaks of sensitive documents. Winners of Amnesty International’s 2009 Media Award for exposing extrajudicial assassinations in Kenya, Assange and WikiLeaks have recently launched www.collateralmurder.com, a website that hosts a leaked video of US military forces in Iraq apparently slaying over a dozen people indiscriminately. In his speech, Assange chooses to focus specifically on WikiLeaks’s work against censorship and human rights abuses committed by Western governments. Paraphrasing Orwell, Assange explains that he who controls today’s internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind. He warns us that Western governments, large corporations, and certain wealthy individuals are increasingly able and increasingly trying to remove material permanently from the historical record using sophisticated methods. Assange reviews WikiLeaks’s work in uncovering human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Guantanamo, and discusses the dangerous irony in the US military’s conduct as it decorates its detention centers with “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” signs. If the West doesn’t reverse its course of increased censorship and rights abuses …



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25 Comments.

  1. 2101silverstein May 30, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    Julian Assange deserves the Nobel prize!

  2. mdaeleman123 May 30, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Goose bumps from the very first word to the last one.

  3. Sinjinator May 30, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    I know where i am, but I still have no idea where i’m going

  4. DCven1 May 30, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    I HAVE PROOF THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE AND THAT WE ARE IN A WAR OF THE LIGHT AND THE DARK. PLEASE TYPE IN “NEW REPTILIAN FOOTAGE” AND SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES. I WORN YOU THAT THIS VIDEO IS SHOCKING. Again type in “NEW REPTILIAN FOOTAGE” with Jimmy Johnson for the thumb nail. PLEASE THIS IS NOTHING TO JOKE ABOUT.

  5. DownUndies May 30, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    Huh, I guess I got a crush on Good Julian.

  6. Visioncliff May 30, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    @andreas941100 You officially lose your right to complain about immigrants that don’t know english.

  7. violentblue7 May 30, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    i would love to sleep with him! such a brilliant beautiful man!!!

  8. scorp211159 May 31, 2011 at 12:00 am

    @Strekatel damn straight..he shouldn’t even be going to trial..the bloody USA government jus wants to imprison him..jerks..why because he lets us know the truth

  9. Strekatel May 31, 2011 at 12:18 am

    ASSANGE FREEDOM!!!

  10. Strekatel May 31, 2011 at 1:01 am

    assange FREEDOM!!!

  11. mdaeleman123 May 31, 2011 at 1:31 am

    The voice! The man! The reason! what a special guy this is.

  12. andreas941100 May 31, 2011 at 1:32 am

    v=brGAgrxscOg this video sucks and why whould somebody listen to it the guy that talks is fucking enoying julian assange is great support him and wikileak

  13. andreas941100 May 31, 2011 at 1:47 am

    v=brGAgrxscOg this video sucks and why whould somebody listen to it the guy that talks is fucking enoying

  14. HereticPriest May 31, 2011 at 2:43 am

    this guy is truely for real. and he tells us the most important thing to recognize these days: orwell has already dawned and we are marching into a time where the electronic record, even if it has been tampered with is our truth. so the ones controlling the electronic record must be subject to strict and harsh democratic control by the people.

  15. avidalocan May 31, 2011 at 3:35 am

    @Jamaican030 “Society doesn’t shut down or better delete child rape video sites but succeeds in shutting down someone like Assange who shows the truth of the political elite and its intentions. That’s testimony to the poverty of our so-called civilised society.”

  16. MrPerthe May 31, 2011 at 3:35 am

    @BayouBluesMan lol

  17. derrenvictorbrown May 31, 2011 at 3:54 am

    He’s my hero! I already donate 100$ dollars, let’s help his work!

  18. zeppelin67637 May 31, 2011 at 4:01 am

    @diramonsky I did leave the thinking to brighter people. Me your attempt at humor failed sorry

  19. diramonsky May 31, 2011 at 4:45 am

    @zeppelin67637

    You went wrong when you said “I think”, let the thinking to brighter people. You just stick to obeying your masters.

  20. zeppelin67637 May 31, 2011 at 5:04 am

    i think he needs a single bullet in his brain. But thats just me.

  21. lanomade May 31, 2011 at 5:16 am

    @MaximilianHorizon this video introduced me to julian assange, I think he is just that: brilliant and brave. I support what he has done in the name of transparency and I hope, as a result, journalism will continue to be allowed to be a channel of free speech. I don’t expect any governments to be that transparent but hopefully, if this issue has support, they won’t be able to stop him.

  22. MaximilianHorizon May 31, 2011 at 5:26 am

    @lanomade

    support for what?

    really… what did he say that you didnt already know before???

  23. bren57mar May 31, 2011 at 5:56 am

    This is out of context but I don’t think there is a Hollywood actor sexy enough to play Julian.

  24. generatorium May 31, 2011 at 5:57 am

    uncle Sam sux hewge cox

  25. Jamaican030 May 31, 2011 at 6:32 am

    unser politische elite schafte es nicht die kindervergewaltigungs viedos seiten zu schliessen oder besser zu löschen aber versucht jemand wie assange uns normalos die wahrheiten dieser politischen eliten und ihre absichten zu zeigen werden diese seiten geschlossen .ein armutszeugniss für unsere so genannte zivilisierte geselschaft .wir brauchen mehr menschen wie ihn. if the good ones dont do nothing , the devil will win .

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