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Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

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Re: Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

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Post by potatolicious »

> "The incident illustrates that not even Wikileaks' former media partners are safe from the wrath of the organization's radical, pro-transparency agenda."

Wait, pointing out a clear conflict of interest and censorship is being "radically pro-transparency"?

I don't believe in WikiLeak's mantra that all information, regardless of context, should be transparent, but since when is releasing information about a clear abuse radical in any way whatsoever?

Re: Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

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Post by spiffage »

potatolicious wrote: post #2

> "The incident illustrates that not even Wikileaks' former media partners are safe from the wrath of the organization's radical, pro-transparency agenda." Wait, pointing out a clear conflict of interest and censorship is being "radically pro-transparency"? I don't believe in WikiLeak's mantra that all information, regardless of context, should be transparent, but since when is releasing information about a clear abu…

People often think of the less extreme act that more people can get behind as being more extreme. It's the same reason that the person who risks death to save 100 people is more heroic than the person who risks death to save 2 people.

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Post by Andrew_Quentin »

potatolicious wrote: post #2

> "The incident illustrates that not even Wikileaks' former media partners are safe from the wrath of the organization's radical, pro-transparency agenda." Wait, pointing out a clear conflict of interest and censorship is being "radically pro-transparency"? I don't believe in WikiLeak's mantra that all information, regardless of context, should be transparent, but since when is releasing information about a clear abu…

Since the dawn of time. Standing up to power is an act which takes courage. Not many stand up to power so it is radical.

Re: Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

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Post by kiba »

spiffage wrote: post #3
potatolicious wrote: post #2

> "The incident illustrates that not even Wikileaks' former media partners are safe from the wrath of the organization's radical, pro-transparency agenda." Wait, pointing out a clear conflict of interest and censorship is being "radically pro-transparency"? I don't believe in WikiLeak's mantra that all information, regardless of context, should be transparent, but since when is releasing information about a clear abu…

People often think of the less extreme act that more people can get behind as being more extreme. It's the same reason that the person who risks death to save 100 people is more heroic than the person who risks death to save 2 people.

The person who risk deaths to save 100 people is indeed more heroic than the person who save 2 people.

Are you saying there's no difference between 1 or 100 people?

Re: Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

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Post by aheilbut »

Is this referring to a leak distinct from the origianal wikileaks set?

From the wikileaks.org site: "The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February 2010"

Yet the nytimes article cites "the leaked U.S. diplomatic cable dated October 2010"

Is the actual cable available anywhere?

Re: Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

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Post by stmartin »

Hey ... it's kind of like, if you don't get caught cheating, then is it really cheating? I mean, if "no one" sees you removing clips of injured civilians, jerking off to pornography, cheating on your spouse, paying a hooker, abusing drugs/alcohol, stealing from your employer, etc. - it "must not count" then.
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