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Wikileaks Competitor In the Works
airfoobar writes "From TFA: 'A group of former members of WikiLeaks is planning to launch its own whistleblowing platform in mid-December, according to a German newspaper. The activists criticize WikiLeaks for concentrating too much on the US and want to take a broader approach.'"
Or Russia... Litvinenko released data about FSB staging false-flag bombings, and see how ended up. And instead of a plausible accident, Russians went a long way to leave their signature on his assassination.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
It was possible, via myriad methods, to release the same information in a widely distributed, completely anonymous manner
On the other hand, most people were unaware of this. What wikileaks has really done is shown that you can leak something to the internet without necessarily destroying your life. Wikileaks has done more by being on TV constantly than by the service they offer imo.
My opinion as to whether this is a good thing or not is still un-decided.
Yes he does. Like when he started making demands that Clinton step down for daring (gasp) to have her diplomats gather intelligence. Also, just as a side point he came off sounding like an idiot when he did that.
I don't think that anybody here is really suggesting that wikileaks shouldn't have published all of that stuff.
What annoys me with the site is that they UNPUBLISHED a bunch of stuff when they relased the Iraq war documents, and they remain offline to this day. It seems almost like a marketing decision (no need to distract the public with more than one scandal at a time).
It seems like the organization is more about marketing than getting info out.
In general, whistleblowers are important -- and indeed there are lots of laws specifically to protect whistleblowers.
Every soldier has a moral (and sometimes legal) duty to disobey unjust orders, and we should feel sorry when the soldier is punished for disobeying orders.
So yes in general there are many circumstances when we should feel sorry for someone being punished when he breaks an agreements.
Does the specific case of Bradley Manning fall into one of this circumstances? I don't know. I think his leak of the helicopter attack in Iraq counts heavily in his favour.
Oh well, they though he was a terrorist. I guess that's alright then. Your argument boils down to the fact that the US is the best of a bad lot, morality on a sliding scale. I don't accept that. You either stand for liberty and don't do this kind of thing or you wade in the shit with the rest of the totalitarians.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
There are already Wikileaks competitors. The differ from Wikileaks in that they actually concentrate on publishing leaking information, rather than self-promotion. That's also why many apparently haven't heard of them. To make a political analogy, Wikileaks is the Sarah Palin of the leak sites--not well respected by those in the know in the leaks community, but has been marketed in such a way as to become the darling of many.