Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years
by rolux on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @11:21AM
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> If someone releases a huge dump of classified files, without any possible war crimes, would we still defend them?
Politics that do not have immediate personal consequences (or politics too hopeless to engage in) can easily become a spectator sport.
On that level, when an instance of "uh, all my private communication just leaked to the NSA" is followed by a case of "oh, tons of classified documents just leaked to the general public", then it's likely that this will be understood as a quid pro quo, i.e. appreciated by a large number of spectators.
Politics that do not have immediate personal consequences (or politics too hopeless to engage in) can easily become a spectator sport.
On that level, when an instance of "uh, all my private communication just leaked to the NSA" is followed by a case of "oh, tons of classified documents just leaked to the general public", then it's likely that this will be understood as a quid pro quo, i.e. appreciated by a large number of spectators.