Wikileaks Must Be Stopped

Re:Wikileaks Must Be Stopped by gloob on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @09:00PM (#1576737)

I find it bizarre that so many people suddenly care so much about the lives of a couple hundred civilians in Afghanistan. Between the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, tens or hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed, and nary a tear was shed by a reporter anywhere, but suddenly God knows how many people are out for this fellow's blood.

The world's a funny place.

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Re:Wikileaks Must Be Stopped by pradocchia on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @11:45PM (#1577128)

> but suddenly God knows how many people are out for this fellow's blood.

It's propaganda, in aggregate. The stated rationales don't matter. All that matters is that the idea gets lodged in the public mind, that Wikileaks is a legitimate threat, an enemy of the state, a rogue organization. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It doesn't matter, so long as enough people believe it.

Why I don't know. What's the next play? When I heard the term "cyber warfare" in the past, I wouldn't have thought of this, but here we are.

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Re:Wikileaks Must Be Stopped by SkyMarshal on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @09:09PM (#1576768)

Informant > Civilian. To those people at least.

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Re:Wikileaks Must Be Stopped by fuzz579 on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @09:27PM (#1576820)

I think that the old adage "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic" is quite applicable here.

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