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Wikileaks' dump of “Erdogan emails” turn out to be public mailing list archives
- cocotino 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow#Life_and_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow#Life_and_career
- rspeer 10y agoThis comment appears to be a dog whistle. I hope I'm wrong and there's some reasonable explanation for it.
- idlewords 10y agoThe journalist Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) has been offering a devastating critique of this on Twitter that's worth reading. She argues that even the most cursory review by someone who reads Turkish would have shown that it was a terrible idea to publish this material. Wikileaks responded by blocking her.
- draw_down 10y agoAnd accusing her of being a shill for Erdogan.
- ryanlol 10y ago>But there's a difference between censors who block the service or attempt to discredit it with lies, and people who support Wikileaks' goals but point out its errors. I think that the title of the article pretty clearly falls into the "discredit it with lies" category Edit: To clarify, the leaked emails are not "public mailing list archives". There's just lots of spam because it's, you know, email.
- leephillips 10y agoThe events rehashed here were already covered at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166248 It's noteworthy that wikileaks has responded to criticism on Twitter by blocking people, defaming their critics, and lashing out with anti-semitic tweets. The NYT covered their willingness to put innocent lives at risk in 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html The previous HN story was flagged and killed, and this one is under flagging attack now.