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What about sites like Wikileaks, where someone can anonymously post documents that are of political and social pertinence?

• Silhouette 17y ago
  Wikileaks is, as far as I am concerned, the textbook example of a site that should not exist. Firstly, if you need Wikileaks in the first place, you have bigger problems. Secondly, Wikileaks actively tries to place itself above the law. No-one should be above the law. Thirdly, there is little that has been revealed via Wikileaks that could not have been revealed in the traditional way via a free press. Wikileaks may make things marginally easier, but if you're in the business of leaking private stuff only if it's easy, maybe you should reconsider your world view. Finally, before anyone comes along and tells me how much good Wikileaks does, consider this: they also released the private membership list of an unpopular political party, causing very serious consequences for many members of that party. Whether or not you agree with their politics, that sort of action is way over the line. What about the anonymity of those party members?
  • dnunes 17y ago
    Something like Wikileaks has advantages and disadvantages, the former it being unbiased, unlike the free press, which, at least in my country, is ripe with political affiliation and business interests. And yes, the need for Wikileaks signals bigger problems. What bothers me about the loss of anonymity is the inherent loss of ways to fix those problems, but that may just be the necessary tradeoff for the evolution of the web.