¶ … Julian Assange The following will be a critique of the case of Julian Assange. It will look into it to see if he was a hacker or a supporter for human rights and freedom of speech.

The Case

Assange talked about a grandiose vocation: "If we get the chance to live only once, then it has to be a very daring adventurous life that draws from every available power... Men at their peak, once they are convicted, get tasked to take action." He made his potential fans know about his clandestine fresh plans: "This is one very confidential internal growth mailing list for the site w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please ensure you avoid making a direct mention of that word in this whole discussion; instead, you can use the initials, 'WL.' On the 9th of December, 2006, Daniel Ellsberg got an email signed with the initials, 'WL' from the blues, renown Vietnam War whistleblower (Leigh and Harding, 2011). The underground hacker was just one part of the soil that sustained the growth of WikiLeaks. The anti-capitalist radicals was another -- the environmental activists community, political revolutionaries and human rights campaigners who formed what was once known as the counter-culture in the 1960s. The moment Assange...

He was equally trilled by what he described as the largest NGO beach party in the World that he remained in a compound in Nairobi with other activists from Medecins Sans Frontieres and some other foreign organizations.
Kenya got its first ever journalistic coup from Kenya. The enormous report concerning former President Daniel Arap Moi's alleged corruption got commissioned from Kroll -- a private investigation outfit. But President Mwai Kibaki who succeeded him, commissioned the report, but later decided not to release it for some alleged political reasons. "This report turned out to be Kenyan journalism's holy grail," according to Assange.

"In 2007, I went there and got hold of the report." The real circumstances surrounding the publication were a lot more complex. The report got leaked to Mwalimu Mati, who was the then head of Kenyan Mars Group, an anti-corruption agency (Leigh and Harding, 2011). "Someone brought it and dumped it on our laps," he concluded. Prompted by a German contact, Mati had earlier registered as a Wikileaks volunteer. It was…