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Human Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks
e065c8515d206cb0e190 writes "Several human rights organizations contacted WikiLeaks and pressed them to do a better job at hiding information that endangers civilians within their leaked documents. From the article: 'The letter from five human-rights groups sparked a tense exchange in which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a tart challenge for the organizations to help with the massive task of removing names from thousands of documents, according to several of the organizations that signed the letter. The exchange shows how WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange risk being isolated from some of their most natural allies in the wake of the documents' publication. ... An [Amnesty International] official replied to say that while the group has limited resources, it wouldn't rule out the idea of helping, according to people familiar with the reply. The official suggested that Mr. Assange and the human-rights groups hold a conference call to discuss the matter.'"
Er, for the rest of us, it will actually be Sept 8th, 2010 (8/9/10). I don't know why Americans insist in writing the date the wrong way around...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Only a Sith thinks in absolutes.
But... the future refused to change.
There's a certain bit or irony to disagreeing with my post against censorship, only to mod it down to where it isn't normally viewable. There's nothing in my post in any way is meant to be a troll. I'd be interested to know what loose definition of trolling includes that post. Seriously, don't waste mod points on posts you don't agree with and mod up the ones you do. Yes, this is mostly -1 offtopic.
maybe you might want to look at what the real issue is here.
that it has nothing to do with safety of civilians at all.
it has to do with the gov't not releasing something they would have anyway. or you could, you know, not read my link.