Nah. Authoritarians love him.
You’re not wrong. And hearing about how terrible a roommate Assange is is like revealing sprinkles on frosting. (Yes, it’s trivial, compared to the mess of bad cake underneath it all, but it’s still part of the whole nasty confection.)
It is more significant that Wikileaks isn’t terribly transparent itself. I suppose no one is entitled to see their books, but it does come off as pretentious to present themselves as an agent for change, to hold power accountable, and yet, and yet, one of their founding members clearly holds himself to a different and incompatible standard.
It is nice to know about the sprinkles. Whenever one of his defenders emerge to declare he’s done nothing wrong I know they don’t know what they’re talking about.
