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> There are pathetically few documents on WL from governments with truly atrocious human rights records. So what? I seriously don't understand your position. I

by phaemon 13y ago

> There are pathetically few documents on WL from governments with truly atrocious human rights records. So what? I seriously don't understand your position. I don't really care that there's nothing about North Korea on Wikileaks simply because: 1. Everyone knows North Korea has an appalling government. "North Korean Government Official Caught Accepting Bribes" would quite possibly be the stupidest news story ever. 2. I don't live in North Korea. I care about what the UK government is doing, because that's where I live! I take it you're from the USA. Wikileaks are telling you what your government is doing, and instead of thanking them, you're annoyed that you can't ignore what's going on? You're more concerned about some weird "embarrassment"? Seriously, WTF?

rtpg 13y ago
Everyone knows that the NSA spies, but having all the physical proof of exactly what happens helps the cause doesn't it? NK might not be useful, but in countries with some amount of information exchange with the rest of the world like Russia, imagine if there were more solid cases of corruption against specific people in power? We say that WL helped trigger the Arab Spring, so why not the same in Russia?
- belorn 13y ago
  > Everyone knows that the NSA spies, but having all the physical proof of exactly what happens helps the cause doesn't it? I guess that is why anyone who mention said knowledge was labeled as conspiracy nut and tinfoil hat. /sarcasm Please lets not rewrite history. People did not know that US diplomats was used as spies, or that NSA planted bugs in EU buildings, or had secret deals with mail and social networks that gave them privileged information under secret terms. People did not know about secret assassination lists. Surely a lot of people suspected things, but knowing is an other cup of tea here.

by phaemon 13y ago

rtpg 13y ago

Everyone knows that the NSA spies, but having all the physical proof of exactly what happens helps the cause doesn't it? NK might not be useful, but in countries with some amount of information exchange with the rest of the world like Russia, imagine if there were more solid cases of corruption against specific people in power? We say that WL helped trigger the Arab Spring, so why not the same in Russia?

belorn 13y ago
> Everyone knows that the NSA spies, but having all the physical proof of exactly what happens helps the cause doesn't it? I guess that is why anyone who mention said knowledge was labeled as conspiracy nut and tinfoil hat. /sarcasm Please lets not rewrite history. People did not know that US diplomats was used as spies, or that NSA planted bugs in EU buildings, or had secret deals with mail and social networks that gave them privileged information under secret terms. People did not know about secret assassination lists. Surely a lot of people suspected things, but knowing is an other cup of tea here.