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For a while now we have been reporting how there was a growing revolt against Julian Assange's leadership of the online whistleblowing outfit Wikileaks.
Now it seems that several key figures behind the website have resigned in protest against the controversial leader Julian Assange only to launch a new service for the so-called whistleblowers.
The goal of "Openleaks" is to build a strong, transparent platform to support whistleblowers, both in terms of technology and politics, while at the same time encouraging others to start similar projects.
Unlike Wikileaks, comments from the organisation have been "anonymous" and the structure of Openleaks is said to be more democratic.
The move comes from a schism within Wikileaks against Assange's leadership. Some within the organisation believe that the sex charges against him were the last straw and he should have stepped aside.
They briefly shut down Wikileaks because they were furious that he was using the organisation as a reason for troubles in his personal life.
Assange has claimed that the criminal charges bought against him were all a CIA plot to discredit him and Wikileaks.
But others in the organisation felt that even if that was true, he should have offered to step aside until the matter was cleared up, to save the credibility of the organisation.
Talking to DN.se, Openleaks said that it is still supportive of Wikileaks purpose and goal.
But unlike Wikileaks, Openleaks will not receive and publish information directly for the public eye. Instead, other organisations will access the Openleaks system and in turn, present their audience with the material. Documents will be processed and published by various collaborating organisations.
Openleaks wants to establish itself as a neutral intermediary without a political agenda. It wants to provide information to the media, the public, non-profit organisations, trade and union organisations and other participating groups.
No documents will be published under Openleak's name.This means that the responsibility of publishing the information will be the media bodies who get their paws on the material. Openleaks does not want to get into the position where it has to check or edit the material.
It feels that this will mean that world leaders will not attack the organisation but will instead be more interested in silencing media outlets in their own country. Good luck with that.
Maybe he should have stepped aside but why? The allegations against him are preposterous, and the need to remain unified are in support are vital.
Although it is ideal to be as democratic as possible, it is in practice difficult to not be concerned about who is coming into the organisation. Are they from secret services? This is especially true is you are dealing with a lot of people from around the world. It is better in fact to assume they are working their way in and open up decision making to the public such as Indymedia.
What is a shame is the exposure they are giving the enemies of Wikileaks who be only too happy to jump on this.
That's what Bolsheviks did in Russia, and look how absolutely wretched that turned out. Those self-abusing monkeys had absolutely no idea how to run anything, and it showed.
Better to be FOR something than against everything.
Know It's rolercoaster, but harder for our totalitarian enemies.
We NEED transparency for our global society that we created an cannot control.To many crises.
We'd never gone to Iraq if we read the cables first?
How can a few wise leaders alone solve complex global issues pending ?
People need to be involved/need same info on these complex issues to let our global society decide & survive.
If democracy fails, the only solution is More democracy.
E-vote(power), not E-commerce(money) that changes our world!
Daniel Domscheit-Berg (previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt) (born 1978) is a German technology activist who is married to Anke Domscheit-Berg of Microsoft Germany, according to the New York Times. Why did he hide behind the nom de screen of Daniel Scmitt while working for WikiLeaks? Inquiring minds want to know. Sometimes he signs his name Daniel Berg. Why? Anke Domscheit-Berg is director for government relations at Microsoft Germany in Berlin. The couple were married in July 2010, with both of them taking the other's last name as part of their new combined married last name?
Name
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Location Berlin, Germany
Bio
IT Strategist with 2.0 in Gov focus, feminist and ecological views
''My working assumption for the moment is that Domscheit-Berg is a plant, and that given his very expert cyber-security background, it is possible that he managed to suppress the Tel Aviv Embassy cables himself. There may be other explanations, but if Assange had taken money from the Israelis, I cannot see how D-B could have been the only one to know about it. I think of the US and Israel as pretty well joined at the hip, and often refer to them as “USrael”, and it seems to me that Israel may have been doing the US a favour by helping to entrap and frame Assange and then planting stories about him while he is unable to respond. The question of where the Tel Aviv Embassy cables are (from the Lebanon assault of 2006 and the Gaza invasion of 2008/9) is a very real one, and I do not know what the answer is, but it seems to me that Assange is the fall guy, not the perpetrator. WikiLeaks themselves say “The cables cover from Dec 28 1966 to Feb 28 2010,” but really they only get going properly in 2004.''
http://www.slideshare.net/AnkeDomscheitBerg/2010-09-23-gov-20-pep-net-summit-ankedomscheitberg
German government? Microsoft? Anyone see a problem here?
If not, go right ahead and leak some sensitive documents to them... then wait for the black sedans to arrive.