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LAS14

(15,537 posts) Thu Jul 28, 2016, 11:18 AM Jul 2016

The scary turn in whistle blowing. [View all]

Up until this week I had kind of a naive (I've now decided) benevolent attitude toward Wiki-leaks. I associated them with the good that comes from a free press. But now that the neutrality has obviously been destroyed, they become really scary. How can we frame our laws to come down hard on this sort of behavior? It seems like a really tough problem.

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The scary turn in whistle blowing. [View all] LAS14 Jul 2016 OP

There is whistle blowing and then there is revealing Government secrets leftofcool Jul 2016 #1

"It's complicated" Adrahil Jul 2016 #2

I don't really see what the problem is. Wikileaks is just the middle-man. LAGC Jul 2016 #3

I saw an article somewhere about... LAS14 Jul 2016 #5

So - it's a grudge? JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #7

But then they should do it equally treestar Jul 2016 #6

Exactly JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #8

Just reading the OPs title, I thought this was about the person with the stupid wolf whistle still_one Jul 2016 #4

WikiLeaks is nothing but Assange's weapon, aimed at whoever he doesn't like. BobbyDrake Jul 2016 #9