WikiLeaks tried to make David Bowie's death all about Julian Assange and people are angry

[Blue_Tires]

Eight years earlier, in 2004, the magazine listed him at number 39 in their top 100 greatest artists of all time.

News broke on Monday morning that the music legend had sadly died, which prompted thousands of tributes to pour in on social media.

But WikiLeaks, which publishes leaked documents from anonymous sources, tried to make it all about Julian Assange - its Ecuadorian Embassy holed-up founder.

Assange was the subject of the Rolling Stone interview when Bowie last appeared on the front cover.
WikiLeaks tweeted...

Of the three people on this Rolling Stone cover, two are dead. https://t.co/yf0iGKNteH pic.twitter.com/O1Awnr6W5Y
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 11, 2016

People are pretty emotional about it.

@wikileaks goddamnit dude take a break from the marketing julian
— Alexander Spamalot (@KendamaGendale) January 11, 2016

@wikileaks bad taste
— tem limite de caract (@sk0rcher) January 11, 2016

@wikileaks and the living one is a wanker who feels the need to insert himself into everything because attention. Fuck off
— Count Derpula (@purserj) January 11, 2016

@wikileaks Guys, not cool. This isn’t about you.
— Aral Balkan (@aral) January 11, 2016

@wikileaks @IanKerr Fuck off, arsehole.
— Sarf East Caff (@SarfEastCaff) January 11, 2016

@wikileaks wow. Are you mad?
— Jeremy Sear (@jeremysear) January 11, 2016

@wikileaks Fuck off. Really. What a thoroughly shameful tweet.
— Paul Niland (@PaulNiland) January 11, 2016

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[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The symbiotic relationship between Assange and Assange detractors is vivid here

Both have to make it all about them.

Twitter can be good on this, though - I've found some great stuff from looking at Mitch Benn on Twitter - a musical parodist (who did a programme on Bowie for the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b067x5j1 - that I hope they'll make available again).

eg: David Bowie is a Time Lord (you need to know Doctor Who to really appreciate this):

https://storify.com/ElAcordeonachi/david-bowie-timelord?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&awesm=sfy.co_u0XS&utm_campaign&utm_content=storify-pingback

[Blue_Tires]

11. I have made jack fucking shit about myself, my dear...

But I do become more insular when an entire forum singles me out and keeps telling me I'm wrong about something...

I see the knives come out when I dare attack somebody's supposed "hero"...

So I suggest you take a moment of pause before you talk to me this way, my dear...

[Blue_Tires]

10. I didn't tweet that shit, I just showed it to DU

naturally you attack me instead, since that's all you know...

[Iggo]

2. And up til now no one here was making it about Julian Assange.

Thanks for rectifying that.

[demmiblue]

4. +1

[Blue_Tires]

12. You don't read his twitter account, do you?

[KG]

3. I lulz'd

again...

[MohRokTah]

5. I would express my opinion about Wikileaks, but...

the wrong jury would hide my opinion of that organization.

[tkmorris]

6. Probably so

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. I'll express it for you then!

Wikileaks: Unprincipled scumbags (showed their true colours when Assange decided "fuck it, I'm just going to release all of this without redactions, I don't really care if my actions expose informants and intelligence assets and put actual people's lives at risk!&quot . And Assange is a rapist hiding from justice. I have more respect for Edward Snowden (whose revelations were ultimately more significant).

I do feel rather sorry for Chelsea Manning, though (as one sort of gets the impression that she was in some emotional distress and was taken advantage of by Assange and Adrian Lamo).

[nolabear]

9. Oh let's just let this die out. Bowie deserves the stage alone.

Goodbye. Goodbye.