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seriously. what pisses me off is that a game is being played. instead of getting the leaks and publishing them.

What rattles my cage, apart from no name getting rich, is we have two basic and equally important rights being played against one another here by wiki, the right to free speech and the right to privacy, wiki are asserting that the right to free speech entitles them to disclose what they like regardless of whose privacy they violate, and they are publishing peoples private emails and bank details not just governments. I think if we have to live in a world where we cant have the right to privacy and free speech then I think I'd rather keep my speech to myself and have my privacy, seriously though the embassy cables are mostly employees talking to there employers not elected accountable's talking to elected accountable's and this Swiss bank stuff is clearly private or the account holders wouldn't bother to have gone to the trouble of using Swiss accounts.

I think in this thread Julian is quoted as being not very happy when his criminal case papers were made public, I'd bet he thought that he had an expectation of privacy, that he denies anyone else, I think in this world you should be able to talk to your employer privately and talk to solicitors / priests / the wife without it being published all over the world and your banking details should be secret should you want them to be and if that private chat or private banking means someone else's right to free speech is violated then so be it because you cant have privacy and free speech.