Assange outs gay men in Saudi Arabia, also personal info of rape/abuse victims

[Blue3]

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/08/23/wikileaks-outs-gay-people-in-saudi-arabia-in-reckless-mass-data-dump/


That's despicable. Outing gay men in Saudi Arabia. What can possibly go wrong? Oh, I know: they can be legally executed for being gay!
 
And it gets even worse than that
It also makes public the identity of domestic workers who had been tortured or sexually abused by their employers – even listing people’s passport numbers, alongside their full names.
One of the cables includes private details of a Saudi man detained for ‘sexual deviation’ – the charge for homosexuality – raising fears of reprisals or ‘vigilante’ attacks.
A disabled woman whose private debt information was released in the data
 
Like, really? Why release this? If you're going to go after Saudi Arabia, go after their most corrupt government officials, release what the royals spend their billions on. Not private citizen data like this. They need to do better than these random mega info-dumps.
 
Calling this anarchism is an insult to anarchists. It's just harm, at random.






LOL, WikiLeaks official response on Twitter is:

"US big media scramble to side with presumptive winner #Clinton. We expect many more recycled attacks like AP's today as our leaks continue."


They're nearly a parody now.

[Speed of Sound]

Wikileaks is a right-wing tool full of right-wing tools.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Assange is a POS.

[Green Line]

Hopefully the CIA is close to taking this guy out.  This has gone on long enough.

[evergreenarbor]

Assange is a POS.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Assange is a POS.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Of course the guy doesn't give a shiite about the lives of gay men, just like his patron, Putin.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I cannot, in good conscience, defend this man.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Assange is a POS.

...and always has been.

[Wells]

Hopefully the CIA is close to taking this guy out.  This has gone on long enough.

[dead0man]

The left liked this guy a lot more when he was only date raping Swedes.  Did something happen earlier this year to change that? <snicker>

I cannot, in good conscience, defend this man.

You forgot to add "anymore" to the end of that post.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

The left liked this guy a lot more when he was only date raping Swedes.  Did something happen earlier this year to change that? <snicker>

I cannot, in good conscience, defend this man.

You forgot to add "anymore" to the end of that post.

As someone who has never liked or respected him and what he's done, don't lump us all together.

[dead0man]

Aye, and you should be proud.  You are one of very few lefties here (Patrick and Oakvale too) that didn't like him 4 years ago.

[Phony Moderate]

The 'left' includes people ranging from Tony Blair to Leon Trotsky. It isn't one big homogeneous group.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm pretty sure I hated him as soon as I found out about the rapes, but by all means don't let facts ruin your snarky one-liners.

[dead0man]

I'm pretty sure I hated him as soon as I found out about the rapes, but by all means don't let facts ruin your snarky one-liners.

Still undecided, lean FF. For now, I like what he is doing even though there are legitimate concerns about him.

Do you still like what he's doing or has that changed too?

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm pretty sure I hated him as soon as I found out about the rapes, but by all means don't let facts ruin your snarky one-liners.

Still undecided, lean FF. For now, I like what he is doing even though there are legitimate concerns about him.

Do you still like what he's doing or has that changed too?

I don't remember what I was thinking 6 years ago (do you have an archive for these old threads, btw? I thought it was Morden's job), but presumably I hadn't heard of that yet.

As for my opinion of Wikileaks, I still think they've done some good initially. It didn't start off as a machine for Russian propaganda AFAIK.

[dead0man]

I did a search for "assange"/subject titles only.  There is only a handful.  Fun reading though!  It's funny how opinions change when the rat starts gnawing on something we like.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Whatever.

[dead0man]

I did a search for "assange"/subject titles only.  There is only a handful.  Fun reading though!  It's funny how opinions change when the rat starts gnawing on something we like.

sorry, not "something we like", it's a lesser evil right?  Lets call it "something we've begrudgingly accepted and are now forced to defend even though it's so freaking hard sometimes".

[they don't love you like i love you]

OK dead0man it's simple. Releasing videos of military war crimes or exposing privacy violating NSA programs is not wrong or a bad thing. Shilling for Trump and doxxing innocent people and possibly even putting their lives in danger is.

[Хahar 🤔]

Yes, it's weird how one's opinion about someone can change when they start doing bad things!

[dead0man]

OK dead0man it's simple. Releasing videos of military war crimes or exposing privacy violating NSA programs is not wrong or a bad thing. Shilling for Trump and doxxing innocent people and possibly even putting their lives in danger is.

He was putting people's lives in danger 5 years ago too.

[Wells]

I had a highly favorable opinion of Bill Cosby a few years ago. . .

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I don't think we should be particularly shocked that Assange is not particularly bothered about breaching the privacy of rape victims.