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You have to dig a little deeper to understand the actual mission of wikileaks I believe. Their claim is that technology allows governments to conspire. Not in
by ThomPete 10y ago
You have to dig a little deeper to understand the actual mission of wikileaks I believe.
Their claim is that technology allows governments to conspire. Not in an Alex Jones kind of way but simply that technology allow governments and people in power to exchange information effectively enough to coordinate various plans.
Some of these are good some of them are bad, but ultimately the idea that the governments can conspire is bad and so Wikileaks want to make it so impractical to use technology to communicate that they are forced to use other less effective means.
You can't only understand wiki-leaks if you only understand them as a political organization. You have to understand them as an techno-activist organization using information to destroy the way information is used by those in power.
- M_Grey 10y agoYeah, because people in power have always had so much trouble until e-mail. The most that can come from this is that people who might not have gotten the memo before, will have now: conspire in private, over drinks.
- ThomPete 10y agoThey actually did and a lot was intercepted one way or the other. It required a lot of middle men to work.
- M_Grey 10y agoNo need to take a cross-country train to meet your counterparts anymore; everyone ends up rubbing shoulders with everyone else far more frequently these days.