OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks'

Flixie writes "Swedish newspaper dagens Nyheter reports: '...[S]everal key figures behind the website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational or religious documents have resigned in protest against the controversial leader Julian Assange only to launch a new service for the so-called whistleblowers. The goal: to leak sensitive information to the public."

Comments

Horrible Timing...

[Haedrian]

Just as the US government, and a bunch of private companies (perhaps guided by the US government) are attempting to destroy wikileaks?

I don't know, with all the trouble going on - Assange getting arrested, sites getting DDOSed, more people getting arrested for DDOSsing... I think that now is defentally not the best time for this. Public sympathy is too erratic at the moment - adding more sites like that will only make the situation worse.

When its one site, its an anomaly - what's next, a law to prevent similar sites? If they keep popping up like mushrooms, there's going to be less "Please stop letting them get funds" and more "We classify protecting the identity of leakers to be a terrorist act.. bla bla bla"

CIA trick

[Anonymous Coward]

And who's to say that they really are former Wikileaks members, and not agents of the CIA seeking to intercept leaks and trace them back to the source?
*dons tinfoil hat*

Double cross?

[Albinoman]

The first thing that came to my mind is that it's a new site is being set up to catch whistle blowers. Leak occasional trivial documents to snare the big ones. I don't condone any of this but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

Re:Sounds good to me

[santax]

Well, his inflated ego is what got wikileaks on the map. I sort of believe we need someone as bold as him.

what responsibility ?

[unity100]

the responsibility of censoring information that u.s. or other governments dont want published ?

wikileaks already has removed names from those leaks. there isnt any sensitive info in them in regard to 'people's lives'.

and what will these people do ? release information to NEWS outlets. 90% of news outlets in usa are owned by parent corporations of 4 movie studios. and they are the very corporations who are also pressurizing and villifying wikileaks.

i fail to see your logic regarding 'fresh'. that seems like what we have been NOT having since watergate : journalism.

i dont want my information censored or edited by any news corporation. i want it direct and uncensored.

I have been calling for exactly this for years!

[rAiNsT0rm]

Here and on Reddit, every single time a story about Wikileaks comes up I always state that as cool as Wikileaks seems it is terribly flawed overall and far too important to leave as it is... every single time I get downvoted/modded troll/whatever and everyone busts out the hate... after this last debacle people have finally opened their damn eyes and I couldn't be happier. The media is broken which is why Wikileaks is even relevant, and we all need to stand up and win the most important war of our lifetime: The War on Information. The other great thing that will come of this is that the media will see all of the potential and thirst for actual news and information and hopefully shift back to what thy should have been doing all along.