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It's a PDF of leaked documents though... If you consider leaking it from the original source to be fine, why do you consider leaking it from Greenwald to be som
by TheCoreh 12y ago
It's a PDF of leaked documents though... If you consider leaking it from the original source to be fine, why do you consider leaking it from Greenwald to be somehow unethical?
- spacefight 12y agoIt's not leaked at all. They just mooved the PDF off-site to a CDN. No issue.
- forgottenpass 12y agoI'm not going to speak for the parent poster, but on one hand you have: leaking details of controversial secret actions from a powerful government organization to a journalist. On the other hand you have leaking from a journalist "his" scoop that was already in the pipeline to get published without any indication there is an immediate time pressure justifying it. These two immediately strike me as very qualitatively different, and if we assume that the parent poster is actually talking about ethics it would follow that they do not have an absolutist view on leaking and that the context matters.