{"id":350,"date":"2010-11-30T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-11-30T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T04:00:41","slug":"from-an-interview-with-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2010\/11\/from-an-interview-with-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"From an interview with Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nWik\u00adiLeaks means it\u2019s eas\u00adi\u00ader to run a good busi\u00adness and hard\u00ader to run a bad busi\u00adness, and all CEOs should be encour\u00adaged by this. I think about the case in Chi\u00adna where milk pow\u00adder com\u00adpa\u00adnies start\u00aded cut\u00adting the pro\u00adtein in milk pow\u00adder with plas\u00adtics. That hap\u00adpened at a num\u00adber of sep\u00ada\u00adrate manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you want to run a good com\u00adpa\u00adny. It\u2019s nice to have an eth\u00adi\u00adcal work\u00adplace. Your employ\u00adees are much less like\u00adly to screw you over if they\u2019re not screw\u00ading oth\u00ader peo\u00adple&nbsp;over.<\/p>\n<p>Then one com\u00adpa\u00adny starts cut\u00adting their milk pow\u00adder with melamine, and becomes more prof\u00aditable. You can fol\u00adlow suit, or slow\u00adly go bank\u00adrupt and the one that\u2019s cut\u00adting its milk pow\u00adder will take you over. That\u2019s the worst of all pos\u00adsi\u00adble outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The oth\u00ader pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty is that the first one to cut its milk pow\u00adder is exposed. Then you don\u2019t have to cut your milk pow\u00adder. There\u2019s a threat of reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion that pro\u00adduces self-regulation.<\/p>\n<p>It just means that it\u2019s eas\u00adi\u00ader for hon\u00adest CEOs to run an hon\u00adest busi\u00adness, if the dis\u00adhon\u00adest busi\u00adness\u00ades are more effect\u00aded neg\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly by leaks than hon\u00adest busi\u00adness\u00ades. That\u2019s the whole idea. In the strug\u00adgle between open and hon\u00adest com\u00adpa\u00adnies and dis\u00adhon\u00adest and closed com\u00adpa\u00adnies, we\u2019re cre\u00adat\u00ading a tremen\u00addous rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion\u00adal tax on the uneth\u00adi\u00adcal companies.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/andygreenberg\/2010\/11\/29\/an-interview-with-wikileaks-julian-assange\">An inter\u00adview with Wik\u00adileaks\u2019 Julian Assange<\/a> (Forbes.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wik\u00adiLeaks means it\u2019s eas\u00adi\u00ader to run a good busi\u00adness and hard\u00ader to run a bad busi\u00adness, and all CEOs should be encour\u00adaged by this. I think about the case in Chi\u00adna where milk pow\u00adder com\u00adpa\u00adnies start\u00aded cut\u00adting the pro\u00adtein in milk pow\u00adder with plas\u00adtics. That hap\u00adpened at a num\u00adber of sep\u00ada\u00adrate man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders. Let\u2019s say&nbsp;you&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}