{"id":16389,"date":"2012-10-14T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2012-10-14T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:39:35","slug":"anonymous-drops-support-for-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/anonymous-drops-support-for-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous drops support for WikiLeaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/profile\/tyler_holman\" rel=\"author\">Tyler Holman<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous just declared war on their longtime prot\u00c3\u00a9g\u00c3\u00a9, WikiLeaks. It seems like it was just yesterday that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/anonymous-takes-up-the-fight-for-wikileaks\">they were the BFFs<\/a>, leaking documents and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">trying to get out of rape scandals<\/span>\u00a0toppling governments, but alas, that is no more.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/anonymous-declares-war-on-wikileaks-7000005670\/\">behind the sudden change of heart<\/a>? Money, of course! WikiLeaks has decided to take a page from the New York Times\u2019 playbook and put their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/the-gifiles.html\">Global Intelligence files<\/a>\u00a0behind a paywall. \u00a0That means that next time you try to check out WikiLeaks\u2019 massive cache of internal Stratfor emails, you\u2019ll be met by a banner requiring you to make a donation first. To be fair, you can set your own price, but a paywall is still a paywall, and Anonymous isn\u2019t happy about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/256208465511452672\">An angry exchange<\/a>\u00a0between Wikileaks and Anonymous supporters over Twitter led to the paywall being briefly removed, but the next day it was back, prompting Anonymous \u00a0to say that they will drop all support of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange because of the incident:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regardless of any workarounds, the fact remains that a meretricious page is placed for the majority of visitors that cannot be closed. The obvious intention is to force donations in exchange for access. This is a filthy and rotten, wholly un-ethical action &#8211; and Anonymous is enraged.<\/p>\n<p>No longer will Anonymous risk prison to defend WikiLeaks or Julian Assange from their enemies. No longer will Anonymous risk prison to supply material for WikiLeaks disclosures. Anonymous turns it&#8217;s back on WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has with it&#8217;s actions this past 48 hours betrayed Anonymous, and thus has lost it&#8217;s biggest and most powerful supporter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the up side, Anonymous says that they won\u2019t be attacking WikiLeaks or any of its assets, since it considers them to be media outlets. But why is WikiLeaks risking the loss of one of its biggest supporters over a donation campaign?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikileaks.org\/Press-Statement-In-this-election.html\">According to a post<\/a>\u00a0written on October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0(strangely, it took a while for the paywall to draw Anonymous\u2019 ire), Julian Assange, besides taking credit for ending the Iraq War and creating the Arab Spring, urges supporters to \u2018vote with their wallet\u2019 this election by giving their cash to WikiLeaks or Julian Assange\u2019s legal fund.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re really not sure how that\u2019s going to affect the election, but maybe topical campaigns are more interesting than the generic \u2018give me moneyz?\u2019 At any rate, we\u2019d love to hear your thoughts below, and we can\u2019t wait to see how all of this turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Holman\u00a0| Anonymous just declared war on their longtime prot\u00c3\u00a9g\u00c3\u00a9, WikiLeaks. It seems like it was just yesterday that\u00a0they were the BFFs, leaking documents and\u00a0trying to get out of rape scandals\u00a0toppling governments, but alas, that is no more. So, what\u2019s\u00a0behind the sudden change of heart? Money, of course! WikiLeaks has decided to take a page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}