Well, there’s always going to be something wrong with taking someone’s correspondence or business records and making them public without their consent. That wrong could be outweighed by the right the public has to know about matters of civic interest. Wikileaks is basically a fence for those who steal private information, in the eyes of its detractors. It was only ever going to catch shit, and being in the middle, or the front of it, was a prescription for getting bloody.

The left and progressives and libertarians and all those concerned with some transparency for public policy making {should be on Assange’s side}(https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/03/op-ed-if-ecuador-withdraws-support-and-protection-from-julian-assange-it-will-be-a-tragedy/), and the government should be reformed such that the need for a Wikileaks organization is obviated by systemic transparency. That governmental reform, though, is not likely to happen, or happen sufficiently, as governments are wont to abuse their power.

As others have pointed out here, Assange is a hero and Ecuador deserves our support. It would be nice to see support vigils outside of Ecuador’s embassy in the UK, and protests by Americans at the U.S. embassy in Ecuador. Is there a fund to assist Ecuador and defray the cost of hosting Julian there?