While we’re at it, free Dan Duggan, imprisoned on behalf of the US with no local charges, awaiting extradition accused of something that isn’t even a crime here.

Someone hasn’t read the plea deal…

You do realise that his source, Manning, is American. It’s the Manning leaks he was prosecuted for. There is no mention of collusion with any country in the indictment or plea.

Wikipedia is not proof. The sources it links, CNN and Reuters, are not proof.

Calling me names doesn’t make you right.

Ever heard of licensing?

The WikiLeaks statement said RT, an English-language network launched by the Kremlin in 2010, obtained a license to broadcast the show but was not involved in the production process or the editorial decision-making, which was overseen by Assange.

Quoted from: https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/julian-assanges-tv-show-gets-launch-date/news-story/3db33f96811bf274505ac3ce65c8a469

https://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/about.html

Matrix and XMPP are not alternatives and are worse for privacy and security

XMPP is exactly as good or bad for privacy as the servers and clients you choose. It’s a protocol, not a service. Unlike Signal, which is a brand/app/service package.

Thank you. This made my day! 😂😂😂

Phone numbers are no longer required iirc

Phone numbers are still required to register and maintain an account. Only difference now is you can choose to hide it from other users and give people a ‘username’ to look you up with instead.

Ok, so where is the collusion with a foreign power in the Manning publications? Tell me, which charges did they drop that alleged espionage, rather than talking to a source and publishing information?

Again, Assange pleaded guilty to journalism. Your Espionage Act criminalises encouraging sources and publishing info about war crimes.

Russia is now doing the same thing to a US journalist for the WSJ, accusing him of being a spy.

The protocol is worse for privacy

‘Trust me bro’

The problem is, you’re comparing apples with orchards. Analogous would be: ‘email is worse for privacy than yahoomail’. Plus in this scenario yahoomail only lets you send emails to yahoomail addresses.

I have to correct you there. The full unredacted cables are still online on various sites. Including cryptome. They have been online this entire time. Yes, no-one was harmed, but not because they put the cat back in the bag (you can’t). Once other sites had published it, WikiLeaks republished the full trove as a risk-mitigation measure so that the compromised names could quickly make themselves aware that their name was out there. WL also contacted the State Department to try and warn them of the risk. There is footage of this.

The US spent tons of money trying to find anyone who’d been harmed by Manning’s leaks but found no-one.

WikiLeaks had been drip-feeding big stories based on the cables. The compromise of the encryption key to the full unredacted archive by Luke Harding and David Leigh of the Guardian put a stop to this unfortunately. They stupidly published the encryption key in their book. Once people found the encrypted file online it didn’t take long to put 2 and 2 together.

Conversations for android is an example of a good XMPP client.