Thursday, December 2, 2010

Wikileaks - who needs it?

Now that Amazon has announced it will no longer be hosting Wikileaks documents, the first Germans are announcing in Internet forums that they have deleted their Amazon accounts.

I side with George Packer of the New Yorker on this:

If WikiLeaks... were uncovering crimes, or scandals, or systemic abuses, there would be no question about the overwhelming public interest in these latest revelations. But the WikiLeaks dump contains no My Lais, no black sites, no Abu Ghraibs.... Should no government secret remain secret? Is diplomacy possible when official views have all the privacy of social networking? Assange’s stated ambition is to embarrass the U.S. This means that his goals and those of most journalists are not the same.
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1 comment:

  1. well in the portuguese case guess we could use a good tip from wikileaks , maybe that way we will discobver whre the heck cavaco hided the docs of the house he bough with maybe dirty money ;)
    red my ppst and yull see !
    http://apombalivre.blogspot.com/2011/01/cavaco-hides-deed-of-his-house-in.html

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