Assange needs to pick up the pace.

You took the words right out of my mouth.>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Assange needs to pick up the pace.

Like we need secret documents to show the horrible things happening at Fox News.

Assange needs some sort of electronic deadman's switch. Like a program he has to log into every month and if he doesn't it automatically shoots out tons of documents to all the major media outlets.

Just because it would be awesome.

I'm fairly certain that would only make us feel much more frustrated about this whole deal.

It's not like the Quantumushfaces and Winston Picklefarmers of the world are gonna:
[even bother to] Read those documents..
Be astonished by all the lies and distortions..
Round up a bunch of fellow ex-"fox news loyalists"
Start a - "Take Back Our News" Political Action Committee

It would be business as usual for that ENORMOUS demographic.
They would lie and pretend and excuse it all away.
Wait for it to blow over and sweep the rest under the rug.

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Can you even think of an independent, moderate group of people [with the wealth & time & power] that could exert enough political or economic pressure to back up Assange's threat?

CNN would jabber some about it for a segment then cut to the latest viral video.

Rachel Maddow and Ratigan and Cenk would ramble about it.

Tho they aren't organizing peaceful protests that stop traffic in an entire city..
or co-ordinating stadium sized TEDx talks about natural economics and politics and our we're developing as a species..

Or whatever it is we rational non-extremist human apes need to do to absolve ourselves of these assbackwards realities.

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.. Maybe we could start a Videosift PAC.. ?


>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Assange needs to pick up the pace.

*politics

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>> ^thinker247:

Like we need secret documents to show the horrible things happening at Fox News.


bingo

>> ^vaporlock:

You took the words right out of my mouth.>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Assange needs to pick up the pace.



Yeah, you can't help but notice that Assange now has a very strong motivation not to reveal things from the insurance file, because obviously doing so makes it useless as insurance. But not putting the information out there is a betrayal to the leakers who were under the impression he would make the documents public; and not merely hoard them to bolster his hand. Then again, in this case "his hand" is what keeps him from getting murdered, so it's hard to blame him.

Oh FSM, let this be true.

From what I understand, the 'insurance file' is already freely available but heavily encrypted. The key is all that will be released if something were to happen.

The absurdity of this is that if a democrat were in office Fox would most likely be singing Assange's praises.

>> ^Fantomas:

The absurdity of this is that if a democrat were in office Fox would most likely be singing Assange's praises.
Uh...