"WikiLeaks should take down its links to all personal information as soon as possible."
Do they now how the Internet works?
WikiLeaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger
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#22Wikileaks statement: "@Sulliview @TheWorldPost Please issue a correction. The story is a fabrication. WikiLeaks did not publish the databases concerned" https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/757940726198042624
Wikileaks is also smearing the author, calling her an Erdogan apologist who is working from Turkey. In fact, she is affiliated with Harvard and the University of North Carolina and is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and certainly doesn't seem to be an Erdogan apologist. Wikileaks also blocked the author on Twitter, where they continue to defame her.
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#23They loved wikileaks until it went after Hilary. Of course.
This is a pointless, content-free comment. The author makes specific allegations which can easily be checked and discussed on their own merits. None of them have anything to do with Hillary Clinton.
The allegations should not even be surprising since Wikileaks does not make a habit of scrubbing or even reviewing in detail the documents they post. That's not really their role, in their minds--they see themselves as a platform or conduit, not editors.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would rather they didn't manipulate or censor their leaks. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
Would you mind sharing your SSN, credit card numbers, address, and date of birth? We don't yet know if that information will be useful to the world, because we didn't really look at it, but we'd like to have it out in the public record - for completion's sake. I'm sure it'll be valuable to someone. I realize that you may not be involved in any impropriety, but you may have at one point e-mailed someone who is, or som…
You should blame the people who made the leaks necessary, not the people doing the leak. Again, manipulating the data in anyway undermines their legitimacy.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that WikiLeaks has always been careless about sharing private information that puts ordinary people at risk. The only time they've been somewhat responsible is when they partnered with newspapers who know better. The DNC leak for example includes lots of social security numbers and credit card numbers. If they cared at all they could have done a search and replace to get mos…
I would rather they didn't manipulate or censor their leaks. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
The purpose of the leak is to reveal information the public should see, which is useful in analysis of the org. Seeing xxx-xx-xxxx vs an innocent persons SSN doesn't change the leak.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you mind sharing your SSN, credit card numbers, address, and date of birth? We don't yet know if that information will be useful to the world, because we didn't really look at it, but we'd like to have it out in the public record - for completion's sake. I'm sure it'll be valuable to someone. I realize that you may not be involved in any impropriety, but you may have at one point e-mailed someone who is, or som…
You should blame the people who made the leaks necessary, not the people doing the leak. Again, manipulating the data in anyway undermines their legitimacy.
What makes a leak "necessary"?
For better or worse, this group believes that practically anything secret should be leaked.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you mind sharing your SSN, credit card numbers, address, and date of birth? We don't yet know if that information will be useful to the world, because we didn't really look at it, but we'd like to have it out in the public record - for completion's sake. I'm sure it'll be valuable to someone. I realize that you may not be involved in any impropriety, but you may have at one point e-mailed someone who is, or som…
You should blame the people who made the leaks necessary, not the people doing the leak. Again, manipulating the data in anyway undermines their legitimacy.
I'm not sure it ever was "necessary" for Wikileaks to indiscriminately release large collections of emails sent to the Turkish government, especially if the HuffPo report is correct and it pertains largely to ordinary citizens' messages.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is even less true of releasing citizens' sensitive information to the entire world (including factions in a country where people are being killed over their political actions) than it is of allowing governments to collect and share it.
Just because some of the things revealed by Wikileaks are very much in the public interest doesn't make it an entirely benign actor.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you mind sharing your SSN, credit card numbers, address, and date of birth? We don't yet know if that information will be useful to the world, because we didn't really look at it, but we'd like to have it out in the public record - for completion's sake. I'm sure it'll be valuable to someone. I realize that you may not be involved in any impropriety, but you may have at one point e-mailed someone who is, or som…
You should blame the people who made the leaks necessary, not the people doing the leak. Again, manipulating the data in anyway undermines their legitimacy.
Who defines 'necessity'?
Re: WikiLeaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger
#30Wikileaks statement: "@Sulliview @TheWorldPost Please issue a correction. The story is a fabrication. WikiLeaks did not publish the databases concerned" https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/757940726198042624
To see the corrections made to the article to reflect this information, see the following link.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160726000303/https://trln7wscq...