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Imho, if WikiLeaks had focused on being the Craigslist of information, without attempting to market themselves, they would have gotten a lot more public support
by ethbr0 4y ago
Imho, if WikiLeaks had focused on being the Craigslist of information, without attempting to market themselves, they would have gotten a lot more public support.
You can't transparently publish information and have an opinion.
- psychlops 4y agoWhy not? Why is public support necessary for transparently publishing information?
- thunfischbrot 4y agoWasn't that the whole idea behind Wikileaks? To not only be a platform to upload and publish random documents, and instead to provide context and work with writers to make it understandable for a wider audience? That's how I understood it at the time, that Assange was unhappy with the limited audience existing platforms were reaching. /e: I see my reply was less targeted towards your comment but the one above.
- jancsika 4y ago> Imho, if WikiLeaks had focused on being the Craigslist of information, without attempting to market themselves, they would have gotten a lot more public support. Turns out history has gifted you with a test case. :) What you are describing was literally the early version of Wikileaks[1]! The ostensible problem was that it generated little to no public awareness[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Submissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Submissions