wikileaks

[billy]

Disappointing Poll: Americans Largely Supportive of Censoring WikiLeaks

Strong Majority Opposes Freedom of Press

what did you expect? what would anyone expect?
everyones talking about freedom of the press and what wiki did with their latest leaks wasn't that. they published private discourse, that had been deemed secret
the public informations acts pertains to;
In 1971 the US Supreme Court vindicated the right to publish classified data in the public interest

the private words related to the jobs of the people whose thoughts and words were of a more than personal nature. the same as if you has an email exchange with someone. the leaks re iraq and afghanistan were arguably classified data in the public interest but even that is something that could be questions.

what did you or anyone else but the enemies those countries who had secret docs think. most (from what i gather) americans feel their country has the right to use secrecy to safeguard the country from outside forces. every country does and when some publishes what they know and think of other states they tend and in my view have a right to get angry.

the leaks in general weren't done in the public interest. they done because some jumped up set of individual think they have the right to say what is and isn't freedom of speech. not one of them would show you his bank detail not one of them would open the files relating to wikileaks and how it gets its information. they are not freedom fighters, they are glory hounds who work on the principle of "do as i say, not as i do" wikileaks dictate what should be said and where, it dictates what should be kept quite and not disclosed. is that freedom of speech or press. they are not un biased. they have shown that. that they hold documents back in order to try and blackmail the usa into not pursuing them proves it, and if they only say they're holding some files back then thats even worse. i'm all for releasing juicy gossip even some of the war files but secrets that can cause one country to turn against another is stupid. secrets that make aware what people know and what they think they know is stupid. when releasing a document sets back public relations between nations, possibly by years, it's stupid. it isn't clever and the very last thing it has anything to do with; is freedom of speech or freedom of the press.

personally i think it;s just dirty laundry thats been released but then again i'm not the one that could possibly have tens of millions of $'s in aid stopped. i'm not the one who'll lose a countries contracting agreements abroad. i'm not the one who'll have their overseas workers abused.
and i'm not the one who as an arsehole for it's spokesperson. rock on julie baby.