Re: Why the Assange hate on El Reg?
Wikileaks may have started with a noble goal, but it is far from noble now, and its founder even less so. Sort of like the difference between Google in the early "do no evil" days versus today.
Even if you believe that Wikileaks had no partisan goals in last year's election, you must accept they willingly allowed themselves to be totally manipulated for partisan aims as far as the timing of and dribbling out of leaks. Every time there was some major bad news about Trump, another batch of leaks came out. Kind of convenient!
It is really not surprising if you consider Assange's viewpoint. Clinton had publicly called for him and Wikileaks to be prosecuted for their role in leaking the state department cables which happened under her watch in 2010. He has said from the start that the US government had engineered the Swedish rape charges as a way of bringing him to the US to stand trial and taking refuge in the embassy was the only way out for him. None of us have a clue if that's true or not, but he believed it, and if it happened the Secretary of State or her underlings would probably have been involved in the negotiation of such a strategy. Easy to see why he wouldn't have wanted her as president, and Trump became "the enemy of my enemy" for him when he got the nomination.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
