Re:WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets
by jbooth on Monday November 29, 2010 @09:43PM
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So, are you with me here on the principle?
Re:WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets
by hugh3 on Monday November 29, 2010 @09:56PM
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No, not really. I'm not one for protecting the little guy from the big guy, I'm one for treating the little guy and the big guy equally.
Re:WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets
by jbooth on Monday November 29, 2010 @10:07PM
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Well, then, I'll have to assume you're a libertarian.
How on earth do you square that with opposing what wikileaks does? Liber-authoritarian? Is it just because they published Sarah Palin's email? (BTW, it's illegal to conduct public business over private email, that's why the leak was noteworthy).
"On 25 November 2009, WikiLeaks released 570,000 intercepts of pager messages sent on the day of the September 11 attacks."
Clearly a gross invasion of privacy for many individuals involved.
"In September 2008, during the 2008 United States presidential election campaigns, the contents of a Yahoo account belonging to Sarah Palin (the running mate of Republican presidential nominee John McCain) were posted on WikiLeaks"
An astoundingly clear violation of an individual's privacy. One gives up a certain level of privacy when entering public life, but that was ridiculous.
"After briefly appearing on a blog, the membership list of the far-right British National Party was posted to WikiLeaks on 18 November 2008."
If anyone's the "little guy", it's the British National Party, a hard-working group of political idealists fighting for what they believe in against tremendous odds. Of course they also happen to be a bunch of openly racist jerks, but they're also an oppressed minority.