10 things we learned from Julian Assange's Reddit

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent the last two years avoiding extradition in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He's wanted in Sweden on charges of sexual offence, but many, including Assange, believe that to be a pretext for trying him for espionage. Whether you believe that or not, there's no denying Assange is a curious bloke. Today he did a Reddit AMA about his new book, When Google Met WikiLeaks. Naturally, he had heaps to say. Here's what we learned.

10 things we learned from Julian Assange's Reddit 286749_julian_assange_591w

10 things we learned from Julian Assange's Reddit 286749_julian_assange_591w

1. He's not happy with the way private companies censor information from their users

It's pathetic. But censorship by companies controlling privatized political space is now almost a norm. Facebook is implementing its own "laws" for social behavior and politics. Even Twitter has now folded; censoring for example, leaks about the New Zealand prime minister just this week and some time ago banning Anonymous Sweden after a request from that country. High volume publication+control of publication by powerful organisations = censorship, all the time. We have to fight to create new networks of freedom. The old and powerful always become corrupt.

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2. He's not happy about the WikiLeaks film The Fifth Estate either

It is an interesting experience having a $60m attack on your reputation distributed by Disney. It even had a scene in it showing us helping the Iranians explode a nuke until we leaked the script and attacked the producers.

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10 things we learned from Julian Assange's Reddit

10 things we learned from Julian Assange's Reddit

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