[ExI] Assange, Anonymous and Extraditions

[Anders Sandberg]

On 29/08/2012 20:05, Jeff Davis wrote:
> For anyone interested here is some indisputably authentic/reliable
> documentation in the form of the 68-page Swedish Police Protocol
> (investigation report).
>
> http://rixstep.com/1/20110204,04.shtml

I did a cursory comparision with the original (at least I assume so, it 
looks plausible) at 
https://info.publicintelligence.net/AssangeSexAllegations.pdf and it 
looks in the large like a workable translation. However, a lot of the 
interview text is about as messy as spoken language usually is: I 
suspect the translation corrects this (how the heck do you translate 
non-grammatical mumblings?) and this might change the contents in rather 
subtle ways even if the translator is not biased. Which looks pretty 
likely. The translation also leaves out many pages of bureaucratic forms 
that actually carry important legal meaning (but again, translating that 
requires a specialised legal translator to get the terminology right). 
Plus some hilarious forensics where they try to study "The Condom" and 
infer what it can and cannot have experienced. (OK, I have officially 
watched too much CSI)

One of the problems with transparency is that just because information 
is available it doesn't necessarily make sense without context or 
specialised knowledge. To make a *proper* judgement based on these 
documents is pretty hard, but that will not stop people from doing it 
anyway, likely jumping to conclusions they like. This is one of the 
problems we need to solve as we move towards a more transparent world: 
how do we keep the extra information from just feeding existing 
polarisation, and ensure that it actually produces better decisions?




-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University