(2010-11-29) Wikileaks Goals

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Zungu Zungu clarifies WikiLeaks' goals - disrupt the OODA of the secretive Nation-State. Assange: How can we reduce the ability of a conspiracy to act?…We can split the conspiracy, reduce or eliminating important communication between a few high weight links or many low weight links. Traditional attacks on conspiratorial power groupings, such as assassination, have cut high weight links by killing, kidnapping, blackmailing or otherwise marginalizing or isolating some of the conspirators they were connected to.

Update: Charlie Stross sees this as a fight against the Oligarchy Corruption of supposedly-democratic institutions. Assange has a model of how the abduction of governance by common interest groups — such as corporations and right wing political factions — works in the current age. His goal is to impair the ability of these groups to exert control over democratic institutions without the consent of the governed... Wikileaks is not attacking the US government; rather, it's acting to degrade the ability of pressure groups to manipulate the US government to their own ends. Those who benefit the most from their ability to manipulate the State Department are the most angry about this: autocratic middle eastern leaders, authoritarian right-wing politicians, royalty, corporate cartels. 2010-11-28-WikileaksUsDiplomaticCables

I hope Assange targets some other countries, too.