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Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks
An anonymous reader writes "Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, explains why he feels it is right to encourage the leaking of secret information. He maintains that the more money an organisation spends on trying to conceal information, the more good it is likely to do if leaked. For Assange, leaked intelligence reveals the true state of governments, their human rights abuses, and their activities, it's what the 'history of journalism is.' On the media's role in making information available to the public, Assange maintains that 'the rest of the world's media is doing such a bad job that a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information [classified documents] than the rest of the world press combined.'"
Maybe I am over glamorizing the past, but in the days of WWI and WWII, I would say this guy is enemy #1.
You're correct and Zombie FDR agrees with you, don't even bother with a messy trial skip straight to the execution.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
Who knows what the hell we invaded Iraq for.
Oil.
You can't take the sky from me...
I do not understand how people can consider him a journalist. A journalist is (mostly) unbiased. I do not see him releasing any leaked Russian documents. Or Cuban. Or Venezuelan. Or... Or...
He's obviously locked in on the US. How is that journalism? The guy has an axe to grind. Or are we saying the Russians have no secrets?
I wish I had source, but a while ago, it was found that people who watch the Daily Show are much more likely to be "well informed" about news and current events.
Probably a survey taken on the Daily Kos.