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Wikileaks

What do you think of Wikileaks and Julian Assange?


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What is your opinion on them?
 
Not enough choices. I believe that some of the information they've provided has been useful, other things have been damaging. If they claim to be holding governments and institutions accountable, who holds them accountable?
 
Not enough choices. I believe that some of the information they've provided has been useful, other things have been damaging. If they claim to be holding governments and institutions accountable, who holds them accountable?

Thats why there is the "other", so if your choice isn't there you vote that then explain yourself. Simple things.
 
I think he's an arrogant thug. the guy doesn't care about human life and acts like the godfather. He manipulates and is a hypocrite. During his trial he was begging that his private info not be released and all that crap. He should rot in jail for a very very long time.
 
I think he's an arrogant thug. the guy doesn't care about human life and acts like the godfather. He manipulates and is a hypocrite. During his trial he was begging that his private info not be released and all that crap. He should rot in jail for a very very long time.

Yes, he is a bit of and arrogant guy. Yes, he is a bit of a prick. But none the less the cause he and Wikileaks fight for are something I will always support.
 
Thats why there is the "other", so if your choice isn't there you vote that then explain yourself. Simple things.

You're right, but I just don't think Wikileaks is an issue that can be broken down black-and-white, yes-and-no.
 
You're right, but I just don't think Wikileaks is an issue that can be broken down black-and-white, yes-and-no.

I see, I know now I should have posted this is the in general political discussion page with no poll.
 
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Couldn't we have some poll options that didn't include over-the-top hyperbole?
 
Since the poll options as they are designed fit only those who are at the very very far end of the spectrum of belief, I had to choose other. I think what WIkileaks is doing is not acceptable. There are ways to change the system of what is classified and how it is classified without doing mass dumps of data. The fact that some of that data named collaborators in Afghanistan and put them at additional risk is a sign of zero moral accountability.
 
He does for free what others do for money and they are respected in the media. He's being hounded after and he needs to play the cards he has as they aren't playing fair.
 
I know this marks me as a communist loving pinko, but I'm a fan. Even though I'm legally forbidden to read them.
 
Not enough choices. I believe that some of the information they've provided has been useful, other things have been damaging. If they claim to be holding governments and institutions accountable, who holds them accountable?
Easily said : the people, we have seen the people in action(tea party)...in our congress...
We need a better people.
 
Yes, he is a bit of and arrogant guy. Yes, he is a bit of a prick. But none the less the cause he and Wikileaks fight for are something I will always support.

I support government accountability and transparency, but in cases of national security I feel it's best to keep certain things classified. I don't support what Assange is doing. The Pentagon and other nations have warned him stating that his leaking of information could put human lives at stake, yet he ignored them and chose instead to leak potentially harmful information.
 
I know this marks me as a communist loving pinko, but I'm a fan. Even though I'm legally forbidden to read them.
Not by me.
Communism died 20 plus years ago, the red fades to pink and then no color.
Reading the stuff on the Internet is work enough, someone else can read the leak.
 
Has anyone actually read a WikiLeaks leak? Yeah, I didn't think so.
 
I think this is a sticky situation. While I believe in free speech, I think that free speech is a responsibility in itself. Transparency in government while good, is also something that must be dealt with carefully. If by reporting the leaks people are placed in mortal danger, then one is acting with the upmost irresponsibility. Where do we stop with the leaks? Is it ok in the opinion of those who support the site, if information on where to secure nuclear material is leaked?
 
I know this marks me as a communist loving pinko, but I'm a fan. Even though I'm legally forbidden to read them.

It does not make you a commi loving pinko(you can't claim the title till we initiate you), it just makes you wrong. :2razz:
 
Has anyone actually read a WikiLeaks leak? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Yeah, because you prove nobody read it by answering the question you posed before others could answer. :roll:

I HATE when people do this, annoying and arrogant as ****.
 
I support government accountability and transparency, but in cases of national security I feel it's best to keep certain things classified. I don't support what Assange is doing. The Pentagon and other nations have warned him stating that his leaking of information could put human lives at stake, yet he ignored them and chose instead to leak potentially harmful information.

Good points.
But how was this dude ever able to access this info in the first place ????
 
Martrys of Free speech and of transparency of the government
 
Other. I find them to be simple-minded children playing cowboys and indians with real guns, bows and live ammunition.
 
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