Comments on: WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency: Micah Sifry explores the history, successes and failures of online transparency http://boingboing.net/2011/04/20/wikileaks-and-the-ag.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 00:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: EH http://boingboing.net/2011/04/20/wikileaks-and-the-ag.html#comment-1087856 EH Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087856 My sense is that that was a gambit. Nothing really had happened in response to WL releases before they said that, and once they did, well, we see what's happened to Assange. It was a sacrifical illustration of the power involved and its priorities. I wouldn't doubt that they do have something but that maybe the time still isn't quite right, though, knowing that Wikileaks' mission is to achieve the "maximum political impact." My sense is that that was a gambit. Nothing really had happened in response to WL releases before they said that, and once they did, well, we see what’s happened to Assange. It was a sacrifical illustration of the power involved and its priorities.

I wouldn’t doubt that they do have something but that maybe the time still isn’t quite right, though, knowing that Wikileaks’ mission is to achieve the “maximum political impact.”

]]> By: imag http://boingboing.net/2011/04/20/wikileaks-and-the-ag.html#comment-1087413 imag Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087413 Weren't we supposed to have banking leaks by now? Did the banking cartel successfully scare them too? Weren’t we supposed to have banking leaks by now? Did the banking cartel successfully scare them too?

]]> By: Toff http://boingboing.net/2011/04/20/wikileaks-and-the-ag.html#comment-1087700 Toff Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087700 Sounds like a potentially interesting book. I can't find the table of contents for it online though. Guess I'll have to swing by some local bookstore that hasn't yet shuttered (RIP Friar Tuck). Sounds like a potentially interesting book. I can’t find the table of contents for it online though. Guess I’ll have to swing by some local bookstore that hasn’t yet shuttered (RIP Friar Tuck).

]]> By: tcarb http://boingboing.net/2011/04/20/wikileaks-and-the-ag.html#comment-1087961 tcarb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1087961 Whatever the fall out from Wikileaks and the debate over transparency - it is sobering and shameful to observe the manner in which Brandon Manning has been treated since his arrest last summer. Whether one considers his act one of treason or a of cry for truth, continued endorsement of his treatment is indicative of how inconvenient people can be buried alive in our "open societies" Whatever the fall out from Wikileaks and the debate over transparency – it is sobering and shameful to observe the manner in which Brandon Manning has been treated since his arrest last summer.

Whether one considers his act one of treason or a of cry for truth, continued endorsement of his treatment is indicative of how inconvenient people can be buried alive in our “open societies”

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