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Originally Posted by CampbellsTransgressions
The problem I have with Wikileaks is they have a large amount of unchecked power right now. Who is to say whether what they are releasing is true or not? They could completely fabricate something and the only organizations that could deny it are the government themselves. The same governments that will have lost the trust of the people following Wikileaks.
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So it's not ok for Wikileaks to have unchecked power but it's ok for Governments to? Weather Wikileaks is releasing true information or not is beside the point. The idea is you're supposed to read it and come to your own conclusion. People are going to believe what they want to believe weather they have facts or not. This is why there are still people in the world who claim Evolution is bull crap but Creationism is real because God said so.
Now I'm not saying I agree with all the hacking that's going on or anything like that. I think it will end up doing more harm than good. However this is something that's been coming to pass for quite some time. Honestly if some of the governments in this world were open and honest, and weren't as corrupt as they have become they would have nothing to hide and a website like Wikileak's doesn't get started. And quite honestly the government is it's own worst enemy here. They are the ones making a big deal about it and it's drawing a lot of attention. They are going to have to be careful with how they proceed here because all of a sudden everyone's watching.
With the way the govenrments have responded to this whole ordeal I have a hard time believing some of this stuff isn't true. If it wasn't then there's hardly a deal made about it as governments around the world would just go about taking care of their people and ignoring what "Crazy conspiracy theorists are coming up with these days". But now they're worried. So worried that they are infringing upon peoples freedoms and will probably claim the ends justify the means. And when you start doing that you open yourself up to retaliation from the people who are going to feel the most oppressed.
With all of that said, this is all very interesting. One might even say it could even turn into a revolution of sorts. One might also say that this will die out after about 2 weeks and then everyone goes back to not caring about Wikileaks. Either way it should make for some interesting news for the next little while.