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Since its inception, the internet has provided new ways for people all over the world to exercise the rights of free speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. These rights are not simply the benefits of a free society--they are the very means of preserving that society's freedom. The recent increase in government interference with these freedoms coincides with the failure of the corporate media to fulfill their vital role in checking the abuse of authority. Censorship and journalistic abdication have left citizens unaware and unable to hold their governments accountable.
WikiLeaks has moved to fill the void left by traditional news media, providing the necessary information for citizens to hold their governments to account. Yet it has not been granted the legal protections generally afforded to journalists.
Instead, the organization has been vilified and monetary support has been blocked by governments and private corporations. The vitriol aimed at WikiLeaks demonstrates an unsettling disregard for the fundamental freedom to exchange information and express ideas. Members of a free society must not allow information to be suppressed simply because it inconveniences those in power.
Stand for freedom. Stand with Anonymous
To tyrants, the downtrodden are nameless.
Events
Since its inception, the internet has provided new ways for people all over the world to exercise the rights of free speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. These rights are not simply the benefits of a free society--they are the very means of preserving that society's freedom. The recent increase in government interference with these freedoms coincides with the failure of the corporate media to fulfill their vital role in checking the abuse of authority. Censorship and journalistic abdication have left citizens unaware and unable to hold their governments accountable.
WikiLeaks has moved to fill the void left by traditional news media, providing the necessary information for citizens to hold their governments to account. Yet it has not been granted the legal protections generally afforded to journalists.
Instead, the organization has been vilified and monetary support has been blocked by governments and private corporations. The vitriol aimed at WikiLeaks demonstrates an unsettling disregard for the fundamental freedom to exchange information and express ideas. Members of a free society must not allow information to be suppressed simply because it inconveniences those in power.
We share the responsibility to defend vital liberties. The time to act is now.
We are Anonymous, a leaderless movement that has worked tirelessly to oppose all forms of Internet censorship worldwide, from DMCA abuses to government mandated content filters. Our initiatives include supporting dissenting groups in Iran, Zimbabwe and Tunisia, as well as waging the highly visible information battle against the Church of Scientology. We are now prepared to take the fight to the world stage.
Join us on January 15th for the first in a series of global protests in defense of WikiLeaks and freedom of expression. Stand with us to defend your freedoms.
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WikiLeaks's Julian Assange suffered 'tragic' childhood, court documents reveal
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange never knew his father and saw his computer as his only friend, transcript of hacking trial shows
Share Luke Harding and Alison Rourke
guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 January 2011 15.55 GMT Article history
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attended at least 12 schools in different states as his mother tried to flee a violent relationship. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters
The "tragic" childhood of WikiLleaks founder Julian Assange has been revealed today in court documents, which describe his background as a highly gifted boy who never knew his father, was deprived of formal education and saw his computer as his "only friend".
One of the most poignant disclosures, in documents from his trial for computer hacking in Australia as a young man, is that Assange lists his absent father, John Shipton, as the nominal owner of his web site, wikileaks.org.
Assange is facing American attempts to build a prosecution against him after the leaking of worldwide US diplomatic cables obtained by the WikiLeaks founder, which were published in the Guardian and other international media.
A 23-year-old US soldier, Bradley Manning, is expected to be court-martialled in the spring, accused of passing more than 250,000 cables to Assange, although only an edited fraction of them have been published.
An Australian court in Victoria today published much of the transcript of Assange's sentencing hearing from 5 December 1996, when he pleaded guilty to 24 charges of hacking. Judge Ross described Assange as "'highly intelligent".
He did not jail him and accepted that Assange had hacked into computers at Australia's National University, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Nortel, a Canadian telecommunications company, in 1991 out of "intellectual inquisitiveness". There was no evidence he had acted for personal gain, the judge said.
The transcript provides compelling details about Assange's early life. The court was told Assange's mother, Christine, "effectively ran away from home" at 17 and moved to Sydney. In her early 20s she became pregnant with Julian.
"[Julian's father] never took up residence, or if he did only ... for a very short time," the court was told. "He has had no contact with the prisoner." At the time of the hearing, in 1996, Assange was 25 .
In October 2006, Assange registered the domain name wikileaks.org with the Californian hosting company Dynadot. He gave the registrant's name as John Shipton.
In 2008 he re-registered Shipton's nominal address as Nairobi in Kenya, care of WIkiLeaks. Assange was living in Nairobi and was locked in a legal fight with a Swiss bank, Julius Baer, which was trying to force Dynadot to cancel the registration and remove the WikiLeaks name from the internet.
Assange had posted details of Baer's offshore clients in the Cayman Islands, some of whom were accused of tax evasion. After a free speech outcry, Baer dropped its lawsuit.
The WikiLeaks founder has cryptically referred to his father several times in interviews, for example telling the BBC's John Humphries last month he had inherited his strong moral values from him. "Men don't create victims. They try to stop people from becoming victims," he said, describing this as a "value that comes from my father".
It was unclear whether he was referring to Shipton, or to his stepfather Brett Assange, an actor and theatre director whom his mother married. The court heard the young Assange had a close relationship with his stepfather, but the marriage broke down when was seven.
His mother had a relationship with a third man, who became violent, the court papers disclose. Assange and his mother then moved frequently "from town to town" and from "state to state" to escape him, with Assange attending at least 12 schools.
Assange's mother bought him his first computer at 13 or 14. "This computer, in effect, became his only friend and his only interaction with the outside world," his defence lawyer, Paul Galbally, told the judge. "Mr Assange literally went from one school to another, sometimes spending four months in one school, sometimes spending six months at another school."
Galbally added: "He was ostracised from time to time. When he would reach a new community he would be ostracised, he would be, I suppose the colloquial expression is to be picked on, he would be bullied and his only real saviour in life or his own bedrock in life was this computer."
The transcript was released after an application by the Guardian and the Australian Age newspaper .
Hết trích .
"I believe in the universal right to freedom of information and our right to be told the truth." (Jemima Khan) .
Share Luke Harding and Alison Rourke
guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 January 2011 15.55 GMT Article history
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attended at least 12 schools in different states as his mother tried to flee a violent relationship. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters
The "tragic" childhood of WikiLleaks founder Julian Assange has been revealed today in court documents, which describe his background as a highly gifted boy who never knew his father, was deprived of formal education and saw his computer as his "only friend".
One of the most poignant disclosures, in documents from his trial for computer hacking in Australia as a young man, is that Assange lists his absent father, John Shipton, as the nominal owner of his web site, wikileaks.org.
Assange is facing American attempts to build a prosecution against him after the leaking of worldwide US diplomatic cables obtained by the WikiLeaks founder, which were published in the Guardian and other international media.
A 23-year-old US soldier, Bradley Manning, is expected to be court-martialled in the spring, accused of passing more than 250,000 cables to Assange, although only an edited fraction of them have been published.
An Australian court in Victoria today published much of the transcript of Assange's sentencing hearing from 5 December 1996, when he pleaded guilty to 24 charges of hacking. Judge Ross described Assange as "'highly intelligent".
He did not jail him and accepted that Assange had hacked into computers at Australia's National University, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Nortel, a Canadian telecommunications company, in 1991 out of "intellectual inquisitiveness". There was no evidence he had acted for personal gain, the judge said.
The transcript provides compelling details about Assange's early life. The court was told Assange's mother, Christine, "effectively ran away from home" at 17 and moved to Sydney. In her early 20s she became pregnant with Julian.
"[Julian's father] never took up residence, or if he did only ... for a very short time," the court was told. "He has had no contact with the prisoner." At the time of the hearing, in 1996, Assange was 25 .
In October 2006, Assange registered the domain name wikileaks.org with the Californian hosting company Dynadot. He gave the registrant's name as John Shipton.
In 2008 he re-registered Shipton's nominal address as Nairobi in Kenya, care of WIkiLeaks. Assange was living in Nairobi and was locked in a legal fight with a Swiss bank, Julius Baer, which was trying to force Dynadot to cancel the registration and remove the WikiLeaks name from the internet.
Assange had posted details of Baer's offshore clients in the Cayman Islands, some of whom were accused of tax evasion. After a free speech outcry, Baer dropped its lawsuit.
The WikiLeaks founder has cryptically referred to his father several times in interviews, for example telling the BBC's John Humphries last month he had inherited his strong moral values from him. "Men don't create victims. They try to stop people from becoming victims," he said, describing this as a "value that comes from my father".
It was unclear whether he was referring to Shipton, or to his stepfather Brett Assange, an actor and theatre director whom his mother married. The court heard the young Assange had a close relationship with his stepfather, but the marriage broke down when was seven.
His mother had a relationship with a third man, who became violent, the court papers disclose. Assange and his mother then moved frequently "from town to town" and from "state to state" to escape him, with Assange attending at least 12 schools.
Assange's mother bought him his first computer at 13 or 14. "This computer, in effect, became his only friend and his only interaction with the outside world," his defence lawyer, Paul Galbally, told the judge. "Mr Assange literally went from one school to another, sometimes spending four months in one school, sometimes spending six months at another school."
Galbally added: "He was ostracised from time to time. When he would reach a new community he would be ostracised, he would be, I suppose the colloquial expression is to be picked on, he would be bullied and his only real saviour in life or his own bedrock in life was this computer."
The transcript was released after an application by the Guardian and the Australian Age newspaper .
Hết trích .
"I believe in the universal right to freedom of information and our right to be told the truth." (Jemima Khan) .
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