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Wikileaks poll

What do you think of wikileaks?

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kellyb

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Is wikileaks freedom of speech and freedom of the press in action, or a terrorist organization? Or something in the middle?
 
I think Wikileaks is an information clearing house whose founder, Julian Assnge is using it to feed his own ego and muddy the legal issues he is facing.
 
kellyb said:
Is wikileaks freedom of speech and freedom of the press in action, or a terrorist organization? Or something in the middle?
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Why does Wikileaks have to lie on an axis with freedom of the press at one end and terrorism at the other?

Why would such an axis even exist in the first place?
 
theprestige said:
Why does Wikileaks have to lie on an axis with freedom of the press at one end and terrorism at the other?

Why would such an axis even exist in the first place?
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What do you think would have been better poll options?
 
I think that Julian Assange is a plant from Planet X so I picked Other.
 
I had to answer "Other" because it's not a terrorist organization and I don't know that it qualifies as press.

A better scale would be "useful information source" at one end and "The Pirate Bay of International Espionage" at the other. But what I really think it is a trouble-making project started by a guy who really wants to be edgy and important.
 
Rogue1stclass said:
A better scale would be "useful information source" at one end and "The Pirate Bay of International Espionage" at the other.
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Why would those two be opposites? International espionage is supposed to produce useful information and the Pirate Bay is a source/conduit, so the way I see it "The Pirate Bay of International Espionage" would classify as a useful information source itself.

But what I really think it is a trouble-making project started by a guy who really wants to be edgy and important.
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How many newssources are altruistic? I find they're all run with the intention to either make money or boost their owner's egos - sometimes both.
 
I'd say, "This is freedom of the press", but change it to "just like the Page Six Celebrity Gossip column".


They could be exposing serious examples of government misdeeds, but mostly they seem to be wallowing in the "Ha-Ha!" level of exposing government gossip.
 
I think Wikileaks is a communistic outlet of the Soviets and Assange therefore the secret Russian shadow government leader who personally brought down the superpower USA with the help of Fred Phelbs plus the help of Assanges minions at todays leading superpower China. Also, Obama, the secret Nazi shadow Government leader of Kenya was in it as well.
 
egslim said:
Why would those two be opposites? International espionage is supposed to produce useful information and the Pirate Bay is a source/conduit, so the way I see it "The Pirate Bay of International Espionage" would classify as a useful information source itself.
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Because the information produced via espionage is only useful to people who can analyze and exploit it. It may be useful in the absolute sense to those people, but frankly, having the positions of the US submarine on a given day sitting in your lap isn't going to do you a lot of good. Unless you run a brothel, I suppose. Also, half of knowing secret stuff is not letting the other guy know that you know. If someone on the web published the positions of the US submarine on a given day, then when that given day came, the subs would not be in those positions, making the information useless even to those who could use it.

How many newssources are altruistic? I find they're all run with the intention to either make money or boost their owner's egos - sometimes both.
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Well, there is NPR, but for the most part you are right, which is pretty much damning with faint praise.
 
They are definintely terrorists otherwise they wouldn't want to embarrass Hillary Clinton.
 
Donal said:
I think Wikileaks is an information clearing house whose founder, Julian Assnge is using it to feed his own ego and muddy the legal issues he is facing.
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Do you mean the rape charges that were filed after Wikileaks published its first big batch of secret U.S. documents?
 
I think that what Wikileaks did had to be done, and that it is protected free speech.

And some damn good hacking at that.
 
AnnoyingPony said:
I think that what Wikileaks did had to be done, and that it is protected free speech.
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So, if someone stole your cell phone and gave me all of your texts and voice mails and I released them to the public would I be protected?
 
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