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Jan 18, 20 wikileaks founder julian assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the ecuadorian embassy in london in may 2017. Ecuador government strips assange of internet access. Julian assange to publish book about freedom and the. Wikileaks claimed its leader had his internet access cut by ecuador on saturday 5pm gmt. I hope this book will become one of the unifying documents of our generation. The internet was built in a surveillancefriendly way because governments and serious players in the commercial internet wanted it that way. Ukraines dnc hackers out of the closet assange exoneratedcrowdstrike liable this article proves the russian government and julian assange was innocent in. Mar 31, 2018 the skripal saga and ecuadors move to cut julian assanges internet is part of a wider crackdown on freedom of speech and states like russia which have stood up to the west. Now, wikileaks founder julian assange is without an internet connection, courtesy of the. Julian assange to publish book about freedom and the future of the internet this article is more than 7 years old wikileaks founder to be coauthor of book entitled cypherpunks, despite being.
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