On Consent
Y’all may have noticed I haven’t said much about the whole Wikileaks thing since this summer. While I strongly support the organization’s stated goal of “opening governments” and the ideals of transparency and justice to which whistleblowers in general are fundamental, I have doubts about the character of the current figurehead, and I’m generally pretty filled with rage about how the media and many folks around the interwebs have been dealing with the sexual assault allegations against him. I wrote this post up before hearing that he’d finally turned himself in to British police, but that doesn’t change any of the opinions below.
