WikiLeaks has become what it despises: a repressive organisation, using restrictive contracts to gag its staffers, cultivating intransparency and unaccountability, Daniel Domscheit-Berg said lately in an email to Reuters.I want to show both the good and the bad sides of WikiLeaks, also when it comes to my relationship with Assange – and I tried to do this in a balanced way.Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an activist who has written a book about his time with WikiLeaks, also said he regretted having helped set up the whistleblowing website and has condemned Julian Assange for demanding workers for the website sign confidentiality agreements.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a computer scientist, was WikiLeaks' best-known face after Assange himself, as well as the antagonism between Domscheit-Berg and Assange. The former spokesman left the project in September, citing personal, ethical and political differences with Assange.
According to Guardian the agreement has been likened to superinjunctions because even revealing the existence of the gagging order is itself a breach.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg said that in imposing the draconian confidentiality agreement on its employees WikiLeaks was behaving too much like the governments and businesses it purports to expose.
If any organisation in the world relies on whistleblowers to keep it honest, it is WikiLeaks.Guardian journalist James Ball write.
In such circumstances, silencing dissent is not just ironic, it's dangerous. WikiLeaks needs to get out of the gagging game.Those who say they have been targets of his legal threats include the Guardian, with whom Assange once closely collaborated.
In the months since his personal behaviour and website came under increasingly harsh public scrutiny, Assange has periodically threatened to sue his critics.
It's too much responsibility and too much power, Domscheit-Berg told reporters recently, when he announced the OpenLeaks launch at the sidelines the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.
Is nice to know all that.
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