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Aha.. but does Wikileaks affect your life if they hide that information from the you? Indeed, this is a strawman argument. Governments shouldn't hide informati
by mrleinad 15y ago
Aha.. but does Wikileaks affect your life if they hide that information from the you?
Indeed, this is a strawman argument. Governments shouldn't hide information from people. That's the point.
- astine 15y agoYes, yes it does. What if Wikileaks is taking especially large donations from powerful interests and chooses to censor its output as a result? To say that transparency only applies to governments is to miss the whole point of transparency. If that is indeed Wikileaks' position as you say, then they've missed the point from the get-go.
- burgerbrain 15y ago1) clearly this is not the case. stretching much? 2) that would only be effecting your life through inaction. defunding wikileaks would have the same effect.
- mrleinad 15y agoNo, it doesn't. If you don't support Wikileaks you can choose not to donate money. You can't choose not to pay your taxes (at least without breaking the law). You can choose the kind of politicians you vote, but again, those politicians may choose to do something else with your money when they have the power. If you do support WL, and believe in what they have achieved so far, I think that it's wise to trust them, given the amount of criticism they face from almost every government in the world. I haven't read about any government denying anything that was published, but I've read a lot about those governments trying to censor what is published. So, who's the censor here?