Julian Assange has a message for the countries he believes have tried to systematically squash the kind of national security reporting he has become known for: Your plan has backfired.
The WikiLeaks founder, under political-legal asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, spoke via Skype today to a South by Southwest Interactive audience of roughly 3,000.
"National security reporters are the new refugee," he said. "I see this as quite a positive phenomenon where people would have been completely crushed and not able to work anymore, they are able to use basic tenets of classic liberalism such as freedom of movement … to keep working."
He listed Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Jacob Appelbaum, Sarah Harrison and Laura Poitras in terms of whistle-blowers and journalists who have gone into exile in places like Brazil or Berlin.
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