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It's certainly a lot easier to conceive how announcement that state level actors had interfered with his internet access benefits Assange than how a deliberate, malicious and above all temporary and ineffective cut in his internet access on this particular day benefits state actors.

On the one hand we have a guy with the big cache of emails he really wants people to pay more attention to before November 9th, and a police interview originally scheduled for today that he might want to find a reason to postpone for more than a month next time. On the other hand, I'm really struggling to see what forcing Assange to wait a few hours or change computers achieves, or what the motivation for shutting him off today rather than November 8th is?




To me, the simplest and obvious explanation, barring any new evidence from independent sources, is that Wikileaks (the only source so far) is simply trying to generate attention and stay in the news cycle. It's not like these email releases have produced anything mildly interesting, let alone scandalous.




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