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I would hope that if our notion of free speech protects pornography, it protects important political speech like this.

• javanix 16y ago
  There are also legitimate concerns over the protection of state secrets. WikiLeaks and other whistleblowers form an important part of modern society, but we should also be wary of single-spigot fountains of information that come via unverifiable channels. After all, the leaking of false information to promote an agenda is a time-honored tradition of statecraft.
  • vaksel 16y ago
    i feel like it's up to the state to protect their secrets. I mean really, they made this info available to 2 million people, and easily accessible from machines that I'm guessing had enabled usb ports, cd writers and email. 100% this info was already sold to all other countries.
    • javanix 16y ago
      Perhaps I should have said "protection of state secrets out of context". My main concern isn't that these secrets are getting exposed, its that they are getting exposed in a way that is easily editorialized by whoever is distributing them. Ordinarily US citizens wouldn't have access to our country's diplomatic cables (even though other countries might) - now we do have them, yet we have absolutely no way of verifying that we've gotten the unadulterated whole of them. That is what concerns me.
• tptacek 16y ago
  Plenty of companies won't host or promote pornography either.