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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.'"
What nonsense, what is the UNHRC except exactly "the monolith" you claim doesn't exist ?
And most of the UNHRC rights are "you must" rights, often with the "you" part ill-defined, mostly understood to be states, or, you know, whoever is convenient.
This, of course, stops neither claims that something is a human right when it's not (such as "the right" of human shileds to not get shot when providing cover for attacking soldiers*) and denying human rights (such as, oh, free speech in Turkey, or religious freedom anywhere in the muslim world).
* the Geneva convention is quite clear : if a terrorist is firing from within a crowd, anyone who declared war on the terrorists (ie. notified them) is perfectly within his/her rights to blast the entire crowd to hell