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This is really illustrative of the motivations of Snowden VS Wikileaks. Wikileaks was founded under the idea that you could disrupt governments by leaking their
by zitterbewegung 10y ago
This is really illustrative of the motivations of Snowden VS Wikileaks. Wikileaks was founded under the idea that you could disrupt governments by leaking their private data so that they become so paranoid that they can't function. Thats why they don't do any curation.
Snowden's motivation is to reform the Intelligence Organizations in the United States. Thats why he supports curation and attempted to make the information that he leaked only have the information to reform.
http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
- raverbashing 10y agoExcept Wikileaks is hurting people that have nothing to do with the leaked documents, like Democratic campaign donors (even those who donated $5)
- MichaelGG 10y agoIt's not nice, but if those people get harassed, then that'll put more pressure on the parties. So it still helps the goal of making it hard for government orgs to operate.
- tedunangst 10y agoYeah, and if some Republican's daughter gets an abortion, we should totally publish her medical records to prove he's a hypocrite. Maybe next time she'll choose a better father.
- raverbashing 10y ago> making it hard for government orgs to operate Sure, that will be lovely Just remember what might happen if firefighters, police, CDC, FAA, FDA have trouble operating
- MichaelGG 10y agoNot agreeing just saying it clearly adds pressure to the org.
- cynix 10y agoIf Wikileaks believe an organisation is bad, they would of course also think that the supporters of this organisation (the donors in this case) are bad. We can argue whether their initial belief is appropriate or not, but their actions appear to be consistent.
- hota_mazi 10y agoRegardless of where you stand, leaking the credit card numbers and personal information of innocent participants in these documents is not cool. Same goes for undercover agents whose very life depends on such confidentiality.
- meira 10y agoDNC policies affects way more people in the world that they should (innocent people in Syria and Libia, for example), so I see the leak as a problem that DNC is responsible, not the "leaker".
- kmiroslav 10y agoThis is like saying that if somebody leaves their door unlocked, it's their fault if they get robbed and the robber shouldn't be held responsible.
- meira 10y agoIf what you hide there is a dead body and the robbers tell the cops anonymously, you're guilty of murder :) and then, I don't care if you got robbed.
- Grue3 10y ago>Wikileaks was founded under the idea that you could disrupt governments by leaking their private data so that they become so paranoid that they can't function. Except for Russia and China, for some reason (clearly not for the lack of leaks).