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The Economy of Wikileaks

Posted by kdawson on from the greater-good dept.

StefanBerlin writes "Wikileaks is fast becoming one of the most politically important platforms on the Web. In this interview Julian Assange, the spokesperson, talks about its current situation and about the financial and economic background of Wikileaks. He also talks about why they cancelled the planned auction of the emails of Hugo Chavez's former speechwriter in Venezuela, and about Wikileaks' plans for a subscription model that could possibly solve the site's financial problems once and for all."

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  1. Have they by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have they considered charging to NOT publish stuff?

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    rewriting history since 2109
    1. Re:Have they by BigSlowTarget · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sure, they could sell advertising in the form of big black boxes pasted over the materials

    2. Re:Have they by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah, the same way black boxes worked for the TSA.

  2. Re:If every... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If every single registered /. member donated ONE dollar to me, I wouldn't have to read slashdot on company time.

  3. Re:Discussion system like slashdot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The title and content of your post seem to be in opposition.

  4. Re:Discussion system like slashdot. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Funny

    When shown an early Alpha of the slashcode by Alan Turing, Churchill remarked that it was "the worst electrical message board system, except for all the others that have been tried"...

    An anonymous coward then called them both "cocksmoking teabaggers" and was promptly modded down. With extreme prejudice.

  5. Re:If every... by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course if it got out that you gave ONE dollar to an organization, that would be pretty embarrassing, you'd be seen as cheap.

    And you know who might publicly reveal who gave exactly ONE dollar?

    Wikileaks.