Comments on: This is why WikiLeaks is important, and why the NYT should be defending it http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/ The economics of digital content Fri, 24 May 2013 23:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: M.L.King http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-198873 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:57:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-198873 Ah, people thinking for themselves – what a danger!

]]> By: Virtuous http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-197145 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:39:28 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-197145 Government should be forced to be open and completely transparent, instead of immoral and secretive.

]]> By: Australian http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-197135 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:51:14 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-197135 Wikileaks is stateless, which is brilliant
For the world, yes we expect little or nothing
About Ecuadore in the files released.

The world needs wikileaks (keep the Bastards Honest)

]]> By: Tim F. http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-197102 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:48:33 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-197102 I’m unclear how this forms an argument that would help Manning or WikiLeaks. If the government views them equally and would essentially pursue any leaker/whistleblower and web site/media outlet that exposes secrets that they do not want revealed, as opposed to allowed leaks that are helpful to the government even if they are classified, then there is no benefit to being viewed as a journalistic organization. The difference between the two journalistic enterprises (WikiLeaks and NYT) is only in the NYT’s discretion to sit on sensitive material and their willingness to be a mouthpiece for the government when its favorable.

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-197004 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:39:25 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-197004 Thanks, Charlie — I will have to pick up a copy! I still run into plenty who don’t want to see WikiLeaks as a media entity though. Hopefully that is changing.

]]> By: tedrey http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-197002 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:15:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-197002 This chain of comment has diverged from the topic of the article, but in light of yesterday’s new postponement of Manning’s trial, I have to add the following point.___6th Amendment of the U. S. Constitution:__”In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury . . . “__Speedy? 3 years from indictment, after multiple postponements by the prosecution? Impartial? Tried solely by members of the very institution which he embarassed, who are pledged to obey their superiors in everything? As for a public trial:__”The army has allowed the publication of not one single motion submitted by the prosecution to the court-martial, nor any prosecution replies to defence motions, not even in redacted form. None of the orders issued by the court have been made public, and no transcripts have been provided of any of the proceedings – not even those that were fully open to the press.”_ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/24/bradley-manning-military-trial-wikileaks__In a consitutional state, Bradley Manning would now be a free man, on constitutional grounds._

]]> By: Australian http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-196996 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:45:50 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-196996 the US Government makes 15 million new secrets every year,
that’s a crime, covering up illegal activities and more,

The world is changing, (Honesty and Transparency)
its the future,

]]> By: Daniël W. Crompton http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-196995 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:43:11 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-196995 I whole heartedly, although there are a number of glaring holes. The most important of which is that although many constitutional lawyers say that the Bill of Rights applies to citizens and non-citizens alike, the US government has ignored this repeatedly and willfully.

]]> By: EU Brainwashing http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-196992 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:12:43 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-196992 Civil liberties stand as a defence from whatever future holds. To assure an enduringly free society the balance must always be; government is to trust people and not demand legislation that requires the people to trust government.

]]> By: EU Brainwashing http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/10/this-is-why-wikileaks-is-important-and-why-the-nyt-should-be-defending-it/#comment-196991 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:03:16 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223178#comment-196991 Hi Rusty. So if you are in the military and you are instructed to load civilians into cattle trucks that will be OK too. Keep your trap shut! And bulldoze children’s corpses into burial pit in the wood – you may not like it but, hey ho, instructions are instructions.

You think those examples extreme? You think nothing like that is going on with the good old USA? Well the best check and default, to make sure it can never happen, is when people legitimately do call ‘foul’ they should be allowed not incarcerated.

The call of foul is legitimate. The conduct of the USA is foul.

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