Yeah right to privacy so they can continue to lie and cheat, no thanks. Corruption among candidates should be exposed to the people that might vote for them, just the same as the police might uncover a secret drug house, the IRS might uncover a tax evader, or a journalist might uncover a story. It is /no/ different. Do you think it was wrong for CNN to post the tax records that were /stolen/ from Donald Trump? How about the recent fake news shit that was apparently /stolen/ from our intelligence division?
The DNC /paid/ people to start violence with American's during the election, does that bother you? That's a corrupt party that needs to be exposed.
Mis-informed and hating on people while know /nothing/ there LewDog, color me unsurprised. The story about the Bill Clinton video wasn't from Wikileaks, that was Anonymous.
Did you miss CNN apologizing to Assange and retracting their statement that he had been accused of pedophilia? That was why Assange made the threat; once they retracted their lie, he dropped the issue (which I suspect was to sue their asses - and that would have looked hella bad considering that they, shortly after, posted more fake news lol) Pick your source from the 8.6 million articles on it -
Cnn apologizes to Assange - Bing
That said, it would not surprise me in the slightest if Anonymous went after CNN for the blatant lie despite the retraction and apology - hackers and hacktivists the world over consider Mendax on the same level as one might revere the father of their movement. (Though there wasn't really a "father" of the movement that is Anonymous, it just kind of... happened. They were "born" on 4chan by the way.)
I don't think you understand Anonymous so let me educate you. Anonymous is a loose "collective" of hackers across the world, there are no names, no organizations, and no countries that they hail from or work out of or work for. There is no set focus, no set direction, and no set agenda that defines or guides their actions - anyone can be Anonymous and any "idea" can be acted upon. Their "statement" is the only "covenant" or "rule" they have in common;
* They are "legion" - as in a legion of hackers/hacktivists, like one would say the legions of Rome, or the Spanish Legion, they are the "Legion of Anonymous."
* They are one - as in one individual.
* They are "Anonymous" - as in the unknown "fighters" of all causes and all beliefs, they are both a good /and/ bad force depending upon the individual calling them to action, and obliquely whomever decides to join that call for whatever reason.
You or I could, for example, call upon Anonymous to take out a site at a specific time next week for whatever reason we wanted to make up (from they did something wrong to it'd be funny) - the call goes out over the "channels" - they use everything on the web so there's no set site or anything, you just put "Anonymous" in the title and state your case, post it somewhere it will get seen by others and it will spread like a liquid through the web - then whoever in the world that wishes to help take the site down joins in on the attack at the scheduled time.
Just to point out how little you actually know about Anonymous, and perhaps the dark web/underworld in general - there were hundreds, maybe even thousands, of "calls to action" against Trump as well. There was a /huge/ April Fools Day attack:
Hacking group Anonymous declares 'total war' on Donald Trump
Anonymous Just Made Good on Its Promise to Hack Donald Trump
Anonymous collective declares ‘total war’ on Donald Trump, again <-- Note it says "again"
(There's a ton more, just search "Anonymous vs Trump" - in fact, you can search "Anonymous vs" for almost any public figure with controversy and find a 'call to action' on it, humans are vengeful creatures...)
They also attack each other when their 'idea' clash, as you can see here (This Anon "agent" didn't like some 'call to actions' that another Anon "agent" was doing so they shut them down, but they did like that Anon's #OpTrump so they stole it from them and continued it under their name - shit like this happens every single day with Anon):
Anonymous had actually launched a strike on Trump in mid-December too -
Anonymous takes aim at Trump Tower website - CNNPolitics.com