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Wikileaks — Anonymous Whistle-Blowing
too_old_to_be_irate writes to tell us about a site that word got out on before they were ready. Wikileaks aims to be an anonymous and uncensorable repository of leaked documents, posted for commentary by interested parties. It's expected to go live in a month or two. From the site: "Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact; this means our interface is identical to Wikipedia and usable by non-technical people. We have received over 1.1 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."
No, I am aqgainst authority as much as any of you here, but this is, at first sight, complete BS. Leaked documents that are traceable and verifiable will be publicised anyway, that's what a free press means. Especially in the current climate, the fact that they specify documents from regimes that are considered enemies by the current powers that be in the Western world, just makes more alarm bells ring. Our governments already publicise such things as much as they can, in order to justify their own behaviour, and the listing of these countries as 'Rogue States'. This will either be irrelevant, or propaganda designed to make us hate our 'enemies', and justify our ruler's immoral actions. Either way, it would be better off not existing.