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ErrantX put it best. In general, their mission of exposing any leaked document can actually decrease freedom rather than increasing it. Examples: 1) If they
by usaar333 17y ago
ErrantX put it best. In general, their mission of exposing any leaked document can actually decrease freedom rather than increasing it.
Examples:
1) If they ever leaked witness protection documents - the witnesses are now less free (more at risk).
2) Their actual leaking of the membership of the British National Party. You and I might disagree strongly with their platform, but, leaking that membership does harm discourse coming from a minority group (admittedly, an extreme one).
- lenley 17y agoI think the key as you said that some team at wikileaks ultimately controls the the editorial review of the information (intell) flow... Wikileaks makes editorial decisions, a lot of governments are going to be interested in the information that wikileaks receives but decides not to publish. Sorry, but that's what intel agencies world wide are going to do...accumulate information. In many ways wikileaks is simply a similar intel agency unless they begin to publish all the information they receive and become completely transparent. Of course, due to the nature of what wikileaks does, it seems that they can not afford to be transparent in their operations... somewhat ironic huh.. Wikileaks _needs_ secrecy in order to function.