(April 11, 2019 at 11:03 am)Jehanne Wrote:(April 11, 2019 at 10:07 am)Brian37 Wrote: No no no, there is a huge difference between checks on power in the west, which is what whistle blowing can be, like when Nixon got busted, and what Assange did which is carpet bombing. I am sorry, but I do not want Putin or China or Un knowing our secrets. And I certainly do not want our enemies fucking with our elections.
I do want a CIA and FBI and Secret Service. I do not want those institutions eroded because a layperson wants to play James Bond. Ethical journalists do not carpet bomb, and while they can and should expose corruption which is what the press does, ethical journalists will also protect tactics and or those in the field protecting us, and wont simply dump in the process of reporting a whistle blower.
The government is fully capable of guarding its secrets, with respect to those that truly need guarding. Wikileaks is a modern whistle-blowing entity; they only know what others tell them.
(April 11, 2019 at 10:26 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yeah, even if they cost lives.
Chicken or the egg? Words did not cause anything.
It is naive to think what he did was lagit. We live on a planet of 7 billion, with a range of open west free pluralistic societies, to powerful closed authoritarian states and oppressive theocracies, and third world countries whom do not have the same values and are our enemies. It does no good to dump information out like garbage truck if it can be picked up by our enemies as well.
Real journalism DOES and should protect whistle blowers, but it does so ethically without carpet bombing making that same data available to those who want to do us harm.
Data dumping isn't journalism or oversight by itself. How you do it matters and carpet dumping is not the way to do it.
