I see anti-establishment, but I see neither pompous or self-righteous - nor does being anti-establishment imply pomposity or self-righteousness.

I wonder how you'd view this piece if you realised it wasn't written by Assange, rather just him re-posting an article from a magazine.

Priming's a bitch - and 1984's Big Brother is a perfectly apt analogue for the surveillance apparatus's influence on the control of the range of human thought - or do you disagree that limiting speech and culturally enforced self-censorship limits thoughts and ideas?