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The real shame is that there are probably people going to be killed because of the irresponsible ego tripping of a couple of journalists, deluded 'transparency
by roel_v 15y ago
The real shame is that there are probably people going to be killed because of the irresponsible ego tripping of a couple of journalists, deluded 'transparency advocates' and other mentally unstable individuals.
Also, what was Assange thinking? 'Oh I'll just give these people the material, we can trust them?' And the notion that journalists, many of whom are as technologically illiterate as they come, would store these files on a computer not connected to any network is so naive it's not even funny anymore.
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- gwern 15y ago> The real shame is that there are probably people going to be killed because of the irresponsible ego tripping of a couple of journalists, deluded 'transparency advocates' and other mentally unstable individuals. That's what people were saying about the Afghanistan and Iraq log leaks.
- omouse 15y agoRight but people are still dying in those countries, though not due to journalists.
- wnight 15y agoGet a sense of perspective. The USA and its allies (who are, of course, by all their own laws, complicit) have directly killed and caused the deaths of over a million people in Iraq and Afghanistan during the faked hunt for Osama. The vast majority of those were of course absolutely unrelated to the conflict in any way. And of the rest, most were innocent in this context because they didn't support Osama and weren't shooting at us until we started shooting at them. There are a million dead, at least, many of them with holes made by US (and allied) munitions, and you're quibbling about a few who could be threatened, in what has actually been by far the largest and safest (innocents/dictators hurt) release of classified documents EVER. This is serious stuff, stuff worth having posted everywhere, spammed to everyone, SMSing to every phone in the world, etc, on the chance that one copy would get through and let one journalist write one good expose. That it's been managed so as to have a groundbreakingly huge ratio of exposes written to actual data leaked is a stunning testimony to their delicate and thoughtful handling of the media organizations. What we see in North America and the EU is just a shadow of the literally world-wide (and now, hopefully, world-wise) fallout from these leaks. Irresponsible ego tripping and deluded transparency advocates indeed.
- cookiecaper 15y agoI have to agree that it seems Assange placed far too much trust in big-name news organizations primarily just based on name recognition.