Julian Assange
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assangeis an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of the organisation WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 July 1971
CityTownsville, Australia
CountryAustralia
feminism saudi-arabia sweden
Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism,
visions-of-the-future glasses forever
If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.
wikileaks information flow
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
giving house liberty
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
military self imagination
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
produce civilized civilized-society
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
situation sensible knows
You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.
law people community
Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.
regulation likes fans
I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.
wikileaks roles degrees
I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.
life country fighting
As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.
government corruption transparency
Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
justice humanity nobel
It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.
moving son names
My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.