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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by ubernostrum on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @09:09PM (#12860817)
Well, Wikileaks goes and does things like "leak" a bunch of Turkish emails containing nothing which "exposes" government action and which does put ordinary citizens -- many of them already vulnerable -- at risk.

At that point Wikileaks needs to be auditable to find out who decided that would be a good thing to do and why.

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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by Bartweiss on Friday November 04, 2016 @10:32AM (#12872822)
Fair point. I'm honestly horrified that Wikileaks did that, and it should probably make prospective leakers question their judgement with material that could endanger private citizens.

I was speaking the to larger claim that Wikileaks owes us transparency to avoid being hypocritical, which I still don't accept. But at this point, they might well owe some transparency not as a public establishment but as some people who screwed up badly with the power they were given.

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