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Sunday, May 29th, 2011
For WikiLeak WikiLeak or not: that is the question
"It could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act. – Time Magazine
For some, Julian Assange is a hero. For others it is the enemy. The United States is in the process of filing charges espionage against Assange for secret diplomatic messages WikiLeaks has, under the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to receive national defense information if The documents were obtained illegally and could be used "to the injury of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign nation."
Only 1,269 have been posted diplomatic cables of 250,000 kilometers / WikiLeaks documents have, according to Glenn Greenwald or www.salon.com / News / opinion / glenn_greenwald / index.html
The United States has never used the law to charge a recipient who has posted information classified. To date, the closest to the charges against WikiLeaks or Assange are the two charges of alleged sexual assault by two Swedish women.
According to the website, "The Local: Swedish news in English" (www.thelocal.se) Assange, 39-year-old from Australia, was denied bail in London after they surrendered to police on charges of sexual assault after more than a month on the run.
The alleged sexual assaults occurred in the women's homes – One on August 14 and 18, and the other on 17 August.
Wikileaks has been of interest to the United States in July, after leaks Afghanistan Journal War and then click the mainstream media in a big way after reports leaked U.S. diplomatic on 28 November.
The most embarrassing and potentially threatening to leave the U.S. State Department CIA is the wish list of intelligence.
In July, the War Diary Afghanistan than 90,000 documents were released, and in late October, more than 400,000 documents of the Iraq War was released, the Pentagon tried to stop. This was the greatest loss in the history of the U.S. military.
Wikileaks has a history of major breaking stories in the media primary outlets. They do not reveal their sources or censor the material. They have a team of scientists, journalists and aid workers who authenticate the merit of presentations before writing press.
The Economist Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award is given to "honor those who have promoted cause of freedom of speech and fighting censorship worldwide. "This year marks the 10 th year for Freedom of Expression Award, presented to WikiLeaks in 2008.
Amnesty International Media Awards has been giving for 20 years, href = "http://www.amnesty.org.uk/" www.amnesty.org.uk>. In 2009, Amnesty International, Human Rights Reporting Award in New Media was given to Wikileaks.
Wikileaks was launched in 2007 after test reports the corruption of the president of Kenya and coups responsible for more than 1,000 deaths in Kenya.
According to its website, "Wikileaks has published classified intelligence documents more than the rest of the world media combined. "
Some of these documents was the Pentagon, the Chinese public Security Office, the former president of Kenya, Prime Minister of Bermuda, Scientology, Catholic, Mormon Church, the largest Swiss private bank, Russian firms et al. Wikileaks has been victorious on all legal (and illegal) attack to date.
Despite several web servers, such as Amazon, have withdrawn page Wikileaks web ', the information is still on the web in 1559 international mirror sites have different web addresses, but duplicate content host. This is 300 more mirror sites that were at the time of writing.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on the Pentagon Papers, released to The New York Times and other newspapers of Daniel Ellsberg in 1971. He helped discover the secret U.S. and deception behind the war in Vietnam. The Court Ruled that "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government."
The ruling of the Supreme Court declared that "Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government fool people and sending them to distant lands to die of foreign fevers foreign shot and shell. "
So will the performance of Julian WikiLeaks Assange and save more lives in the long term? His report has already saved lives in Kenya and elsewhere, including a recent release of documents from Pfizer and the results of a suspected drug used by children in Africa.
One thing is certain, this will change forever the way the media gathered, stored, shared workstations.
"The truth shall make you free." – John 8:32
http://wikileaks.cybertroops.com/ (One of the more than 1,500 sites mirror)
Wikileaks Facebook fan page now has 1,215,996 members)
Wikileaks on Twitter (493, 462 Twitter followers)
About the Author
Mary Cruse teaches media studies at Humboldt State University and is a media maker and media enthusiast. She has worked on feature films, commercial and television productions and written her column, “Media Without Margins” in the Times-Standard since 2008.
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