Say it ain't so, Wikileaks!
by Nabiha | February 2, 2010 | lamp | Comments Off
It’s no secret that I’m wildly, terribly, and insanely in love with Wikileaks.
The controversial whistleblowing platform publishes anonymous submissions of governmental, corporate, and organizational documents, and is dedicated to exposing oppressive regimes and revealing unethical behavior. The great thing is that they’re actually good at it: they released the Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta at Guantanamo; Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! adventures to circumvent public records laws; Climate Research Unit emails; internal reports on toxic dumping in the Ivory Coast; Internet censorship lists from across the globe; telephone intercepts of Peru’s “Petrogate”…you name it, and they’ve got dirt on it. Everyone from Julius Baer to the Scientologists have tried to shut ‘em down — whoever they are — and their general badassery has always prevailed.
The Paypal-flaunting, UN-report-leaking, The Economist New Media Award-winning, military-grade-encrypted bastion of accountability, transparency, and all else that is good in this world has been brought to its knees by BUDGET CUTS.
Sigh…
