Wikileaks officially lost high ground

[Sterling]

Whatever is going on with these people is not in line with what they supposedly set out to do.

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/wikileaks-officially-lost-moral-high-ground/


WHAT THE HECK is going on at WikiLeaks?

In the last two weeks, the font of digital secrets has doxed millions of Turkish women, leaked Democratic National Committee emails that made Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign look bad but also suggested the site was colluding with the Russian government, and fired off some seriously anti-Semitic tweets.

[NCTraveler]

1. They were never in the "morals" business.

That is not possible when being represented by Assange.

I'm not necessarily opposed to the concept of a WikiLeaks. That said, they are currently a horrid outfit of deception and personal disinformation(look at their recent twitter poll) headed up by a clearly sick man.

Assange has been a sexist, authoritarian, and anti-Semite since youth.

[sarae]

2. It's disgusting.

We're being spoonfed horseshit straight from Putin through Assange.

Also, interesting to see that Wikileaks has even defended Milo Yiannopoulos (head Breitbart troll "writer&quot , according to the article. Milo is the completely indefensible POS responsible for harassing Leslie Jones, among the thousand other abhorrent things he's done.

[VOX]

3. WikiLeaks and Assange are dead to me.

It's clear now that it's a mere power-trip schtick, a sort-of "revenge on the nerds" writ large. There sure is a coziness with authoritarian leaders.

[Frank Cannon]

4. For a long time, I heard people here complaining about WikiLeaks.

I admit that I more or less ignored the controversy.

It seemed to me that the more information about public matters that sees the light of day, the better. It wouldn't matter if that information was hacked or obtained outside of strictly legal means. We just need to get that information out there.

But now I understand what the problem is. There is no accountability for the sources of their information. There is no chain of custody for any of it. We simply rely on what is fed to us by WikiLeaks. We just take them at their word that what they give us is all true. That information can be manipulated by anyone to their own ends. And public opinion is easily affected by claims made in the short term that just don't stand up to scrutiny in the long term. WikiLeaks can do a lot of damage with completely (or even partially) bogus information.

So I, for one, have learned my lesson. Fuck WikiLeaks.

[Sterling]

5. Pretty much how I have and do see it now. NT

[Frank Cannon]

9. Thanks for letting me know that.

I felt like I was the only person led down the garden path initially but who now understands. Liberals do learn.

[LeftInTX]

6. They never had it

They want to "disrupt". When information like this is disseminated, then the weight of the responsibility of the person who is doing all this leaking, hacking etc. Everyone is entitled to some privacy, Wikileaks doesn't believe in it.

Same with Edward Snowden. He puts all this information about there without much thought about the consequences. At first he leaks about how the US govt is spying on its citizens. (OK, maybe this is helpful information.) When he can't get instant asylum at a decent place, he starts leaking stuff about our relationships with other countries to get them to turn against us. (This is not helpful information to anyone but Snowden) Leaking stuff is serious business and those that do must be willing to risk the consequences.

It's always cool when it happens to one's enemies, but it isn't cool when it happens to oneself.

[Dawson Leery]

7. Assange/Snowden are the enemies of freedom,

they are criminals working for Putin.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

8. I bet Trump and his boyfriend Vladimir Putin bought them and have WikiLeaks in their pocket

That has to be it because we all know there are way more skeletons in Trump's closet than in Hillary's.

[Madam45for2923]

10. I love Wired!