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HN Poll: For or Against WikiLeaks and Why?
I think the Hacker Community's opposition or support for WikiLeaks may decide whether it survives.
Please post as concisely as possible why you are for or against WikiLeaks. If you are ambivilent, please explain.
To make it easier to read the arguments of each side, please post your argument as a reply under one of these three top level comments: "I oppose WikiLeaks", "I support WikiLeaks", "It's complicated".
If someone has already captured your reasoning more or less, vote it up and add any clarification under it.
[EDIT] People are voting but not providing their reasoning. Are people that afraid to go on the record one way or another?
- eevilspock 14y agoI oppose WikiLeaks.
- eevilspock 14y agoI support WikiLeaks.
- eevilspock 14y agoIt's Complicated.
- prodigal_erik 14y agoPlease don't attempt to harvest karma using "polls" which are really just disguised comments with no visible results. Flagged.
- eevilspock 14y agoYou presume that I care about Karma. Why not evaluate things on their merits rather than cynical assumptions? And what do you mean, "no visible results"?
- prodigal_erik 14y agoUnlike when we use http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll, none of us can see the scores of your comments.
- eevilspock 14y agoDidn't know about that and it doesn't seem to be available anyhow. Anyway, you make a good point about visibility but I could always have published that. Doesn't matter because this isn't getting traction anyway. Not a single comment explaining why someone is for or against.
- rrrazdan 14y agoI support free information. Knowing is mostly always better than not knowing.