# WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 30, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-julian-assange-wants-to-spill-your-corporate-secrets/562356 "2010-11-30T02:17:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-julian-assange-wants-to-spill-your-corporate-secrets/562356/61 "2010-12-03T00:37:48Z")

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> [@SteveG1](#):
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> Looked at this way, it sounds fine to me. Let’s apply the good old “if you are innocent you have nothing to hide” argument, just as it gets used on us. I was originally in the “don’t publish any military or security secrests/info that will get someone hurt or killed” camp, but this more and more seems instead to be a case of dishonest people who are butt hurt that they are finally getting caught, and less like anything that would affect the life expectancy of soldiers. if anything, their life expectancy could go up once the real dirt is found out.
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> Transparency.

I’m innocent, but I still wouldn’t want the details of my Bank of America account broadcast to the world. I’m not sure what all that secret data he has on BofA is, but if its customer account information I’ll be pissed if he makes it all public.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-julian-assange-wants-to-spill-your-corporate-secrets/562356/62 "2010-12-03T01:54:07Z")

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> [@Dallas\_Jones](#):
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> Alleged rapist Julian Assange

From what I read, the charges of rape [stem from the act of having consensual sex without a condom](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/sweden-assange-sex-without-condom/), which is a crime in Sweden.

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikileaks-julian-assange-wants-to-spill-your-corporate-secrets/562356/63 "2010-12-05T01:20:32Z")

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Assange, I read will release copies of Bank of America’s emails and inside contacts. When the rating agencies were in front of congress, the emails showed them saying they would give a triple A rating to a deal structured by cows. It showed a definite lack of due diligence. It also showed how far they would go to make money. But the rating agencies double as a regulator and when they decided to not do the job, they exposed investors .  
BoA will have the same problem. Financial pros believe their press. If half their arrogance and disdain for customers comes out, many will be horribly offended. We will see what ruthless, greedy thieves are at the top of our biggest banks. Then maybe we will clamp down on them.

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