You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.