New Indictment Against Julian Assange w/ Taylor Hudak

On this edition of Parallax Views, an update on the court proceedings of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with activist, journalist, and Action 4 Assange co-founder Taylor Hudak. Although Taylor is an unabashed supporter of Assange, she makes the point that, regardless of one's opinion of Assange, this case has ramifications for free speech advocates, hacktivists, journalists, and even publishers (specifically since Wikileaks is an outlet that publishes leaks given to them; as opposed to hacking for documents themselves). In this conversation Taylor updates us on yesterday's Friday court hearing, the new superseding indictment against Assange and the ramifications of this indictment for Assange and his legal counsel. Additionally, Taylor notes how two FBI informants, Sabu and Siggi the Hacker (the latter, Sigurdur Thordarson, is a known child sex offender), who have become universally hated within the Anoymous and general hacktivist communities tie into these recent updates. J.G. notes how the post-Wikileaks collective Distributed Denial of Secrets are now being targeted by the federal government as "a criminal hacker group" by the federal government. Also, Taylor notes health concerns about Assange and fills listeners in on how U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer has made the case that Assange's treatment constitutes torture. All that and more on this edition of Parallax Views.