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Wikileaks didn't steal anything

• sigzero 16y ago
  Sure they did. You are just going to use semantics to say they didn't. They got passed classified information and they took it. When you take something that doesn't belong to you in that way, it makes you a thief. They have knowingly received stolen materials and they didn't give it back.
  • rbancroft 16y ago
    You can argue whether or not this release is good or bad, right or wrong, however semantics are somewhat important. Would you say that learning something while reading a book in a bookstore is stealing? How do you propose to return stolen information? Even if wikileaks physically returned whatever they physically received, but made a copy for their own purposes, is that still stealing? There are laws that apply to information, such as copyright, but this information is not protected by copyright. I read somewhere that there was no classified information in this release, so it also wouldn't be protected by those laws. For me, the 2 main questions are: 1) is it legal (yes) 2) will it do more good than harm? (unknown)
  • dtf 16y ago
    They got passed classified information and they took it. When you take something that doesn't belong to you in that way, it makes you a thief. US officials stole classified information from the UN. Chinese officials stole classified information from Google. Let's be honest here: they're all at it.