re: #2 sattv4u2

Even though the names have been redacted in many of the releases, it’s often easy to put two and two together and figure out who it refers to. Even the redacted releases give authoritarian governments a better idea of how the dissidents are organized, where there support is, and what they’re likely to do.

Assange’s philosophy runs immediately into real-world problems; his philosophy might have some merit if he could simultaneously reveal all the secrets of all governments on earth. Since he can’t, the real result is that by revealing the secrets of the US diplomatic corp, including the support for dissidents and pro-democracy movements, he has given ammo to the governments that oppose those movements and crack down on those dissidents.

This is a trivially obvious thing that Assange either doesn’t care about or never considered.