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I am just hearing about this, and haven't really had time to process the extent to which **** is going down.

Has anybody been following the whole wikileaks controversy?

Opinions?   Newly learned facts?  

I'd like to hear what you have to say.

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I wonder your thougts  

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I'm just now starting to hear about it, to tell you the truth I don't really have much of an opinion or understanding.

If pressed, I would say that it is a hopeful development;  As an American I know that I've been fed a lot of bullshit about what really goes on and if these leaks could help give us some insight behind the scenes in politics.

Then again, I can't necessarily trust the leaked sources, conflicting accounts has a tendency to breed rather than quell disinformation.  

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I lost a little respect for Wikileaks as a noble force dedicated to revealing wrong-doing in the world. The recent release amounts to an assortment of juicy bits of he-said/she-said trivia, and seems intended as merely a personal attack targeted at the US. No wrong-doers have been uncovered. The only tangible consequences that will come out of this release is that foreign nations will be less likely to cooperate with the United States out lack faith in the privacy of their commitments.

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The founder - or what one shall call him - Julian Assange is remanded in custody in his absence, in Sweden for **** (yeah right!?). I am pretty sure that the authorities has arranged these accusations in purpose to frame him to stop the site from publishing sensitive material - those bastards. My impression is that this guy pays a high price for the free of speech...!  But who knows...it smells kind of fishy anyway...

I've also heard that Wikileaks has just recently moved their headquarter into a bomb-proof bunker under ground in the middle of Stockholm. Says a lot of what kind of pressure this dude is living under, right now.

As I understand, are these documents mainly written by soldiers and other people in non leading positions. People who wants the truth to come out...something like that...

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VISA and Mastercard has now blocked their customers possibilty to donate money to wikileaks, despite that no prosecutors has addressed any accusation towards them.

Has they even blocked the account for Afghanistans vicepresident, Ahmad Zia Massoud, who left Kabul to Dubai with 52 million Dollars in cash in October. Money that comes from...what?  Or are we still able to donate some money to the Ku Klux Klan through some of these credit institutes...apparently!

...and what happened to Free of Speech?

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I am for freedom of speech, but I also had a Secret Clearance, and access to classified material in the military. I know the responsibility that comes with that clearance, and if you have access to those documents you agree to basically keep it to yourself. I agree in freedom of speech, but I think it was wrong whoever put all of those documents in the hands of people who run Wikileaks

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I agree with you to a certain point, as long as secrecy works to protect like private individuals medical records for example which is strickt confedential in our country.

Company secrets  or information that can clearly damage people who has been working undercover to reveal criminal activities. But I do not see anything to wrong in reveal information about the military, goverments or when other people in a power position commits irregularity.

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Wikileaks = Free of Speech