What’s Really Wrong with WikiLeaks

2010. december 03. 12:35

The actual effect of WikiLeaks is likely to be profound and precisely the opposite of what it supposedly sets out to achieve.

2010. december 03. 12:35
„The idea behind WikiLeaks is that life should be an open book, that everything that is said and done should be immediately revealed to everybody, that there should be no secret agreements, deeds, or conversations. In the fanatically puritanical view of WikiLeaks, no one and no organization should have anything to hide. It is scarcely worth arguing against such a childish view of life.

The actual effect of WikiLeaks is likely to be profound and precisely the opposite of what it supposedly sets out to achieve. Far from making for a more open world, it could make for a much more closed one. Secrecy, or rather the possibility of secrecy, is not the enemy but the precondition of frankness. WikiLeaks will sow distrust and fear, indeed paranoia; people will be increasingly unwilling to express themselves openly in case what they say is taken down by their interlocutor and used in evidence against them, not necessarily by the interlocutor himself. This could happen not in the official sphere alone, but also in the private sphere, which it works to destroy. An Iron Curtain could descend, not just on Eastern Europe, but over the whole world.”
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crm114
2010. december 03. 17:02
"The idea behind WikiLeaks is that life should be an open book" Nem, de ezt nyilván a szerző is tudja, csak hülyének tetteti magát. "people will be increasingly unwilling to express themselves openly in case what they say is taken down by their interlocutor and used in evidence against them" A szerző keveri a wikileakset a facebookkal meg a többi efféle ökörséggel.
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