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I'll make it easy for you: those arguing against leaks are not real journalists. If they were real investigative journalists, they'd know the importance of leak

• corin_ 13y ago
  That's true for people arguing against all leaks, not for people arguing against these leaks. Many people think Manning was irresponsible in leaking what he did - I'm a supporter of his, and even I do to an extent. On the Snowden/NSA side, I'm completely on his side, and think his leaking was a great thing to do. But that's still subjective. It's perfectly possible to hold the opinion that the NSA is doing the right thing, and that Snowden was wrong to leak it, without being against the concept of leaks.
  • sophacles 13y ago
    I don't get it - How does the decision process of what leaks are OK go? Ultimately that's a paternalistic "I know better what's right" type approach. It also has a lot of "security by obscurity" type of arguments builtin. I think a better approach would be to get a minimal set of "we agree this should be secret" approach and have everything else be open or leak-able. Support for what a group is doing should not depend on it being unknown, such support seems weak and abusable.