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I guess you could call this another one of those "blowbacks" that US has been creating by being too aggressive with certain things or people. When tons of docu
by devx 13y ago
I guess you could call this another one of those "blowbacks" that US has been creating by being too aggressive with certain things or people.
When tons of documents start to become "classified", when they shouldn't be, this sort of thing is inevitable.
- walid 13y agoWhat is more detrimental is the uselessness of the phrase "classified" in the after math of leaks. When leaks show that a lot of classified documents are not really that important it will desensitize people to the word classified in the long run and when really important and classified info is leaked, it will be treated with carelessness.
- bediger4000 13y agoStatistically, real threats are rare, but ambition and corruption are common. Overwhelmingly, the purpose of censorship is not the protection of national security, but the protection of individual careers. That's not ideology, but mathematics. Because there are very, very, few true national secrets, but a huge amounts of information that someone would like to bury for one reason or another. -- Seth Finkelstein, at http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0526234&mode=flat http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0526234&... Finkelstein writes "censorship", but you could put "classification" in and get exactly the same result.