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Re:Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files by Locke1689 on Sunday October 24, 2010 @01:04AM (#1825268)
My annoyance may have gotten the better of me, but I stand by my claim that your post essentially boiled down to "nu-uh, it totally does!" Pointing out that you need to make an actual argument to convince people doesn't seem outrageous to me.

As far as calling names was concerned, I actually suspected that you were just trolling me.

Re:Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files by babeKnuth on Monday October 25, 2010 @12:25AM (#1828531)
no prob. wasn't trolling. apologies for the pithy comment if it came across as such.

main point was that wikileaks, for me, provides much more insight/info/"bootstrapping-a-new-source-of-news" than most of the stuff i see on hn. hence, i'd rather keep it's presence on here than have it removed. (again, it might only be me that's interested in such things, but judging from some of the comments, it looks like i'm not alone).

whether you agree or disagree with the tone/perspective of wikileaks, they are a resource of information that is "changing the industry" (or whatever hollow cliche is usually spouted up by VCs/investors). hence by either interpretation of "hacker news" (either strictly an entrepreneurial/start-up resource or something akin to 2600), their activities/approaches can be insightful to some of us.