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Are you actually trying to make some moral equivalence between people who participated in a DDoS of a credit card processor because they disagreed with that com
by evgen 16y ago
Are you actually trying to make some moral equivalence between people who participated in a DDoS of a credit card processor because they disagreed with that company's policies and the people risking their lives protesting in Egypt? Seriously?
- steveklabnik 16y agoStruggle is struggle. Wikileaks is just as important of a world issue as Egypt is. I'm watching Food, Inc. right now. Is the battle over food less or more important than Egypt? What about Tunesia? Different people value different causes differently. A healthy Wikileaks will probably affect my life more positively than a new Egyptian government will, but that doesn't make me less happy for them.
- rimantas 16y agoWikileaks is just as important of a world issue as Egypt is. you gotta be kidding. Wikileaks is a little more than Assange's "I am the messiah" project. BTW, did they leak their own financial matters yet? Where did all donated money go?
- JonnieCache 16y agoPart of the spark for the tunisian uprising was the revelations in the US embassy cables about the billionaire lifestyle of their rulers. Same in jordan.
- steveklabnik 16y agoDon't feed the trolls.
- rimantas 16y agoOh, so tunisians had no idea about the lifestyle of their rulers prior to wikileaks? I don't buy it. And frankly, there was a lot more news about Assange's swedish affair than about anything leaked.
- JonnieCache 16y agoThey had an idea, but I imagine total access to explicit description taken from private US diplomatic correspondence galvanised preexisting public sentiment somewhat.