As what sir thought us earlier in class, WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that posts all kinds of contents that are supposed to be classified or secret.
This organization was initiated by a man named Julian Paul Assange. According to Khatchadourian, "since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive catalogue of secret material, ranging from the Standard Operating Procedures at Camp Delta, in Guantanamo Bay, and the "Climategate" e-mails from the University of Easy Anglia, in England, to the contents of Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account." (2010)
In the article written by Raffi Khatchadourian, one of the videos that was posted up on WikiLeaks is the video taken regarding the attack of the American soldiers in Iraq back in year 2007. In the progress of gettign the video up on the Internet, Assange went through a tough period.
When Assange got the video footage, a number of people who share the same thoughts with Assange volunteered to help out to edit the video to a short clip in total secrecy. Besides that, Assange also intends to ensure that when the videos is up on Internet, there will be no way to take down the video unless they were to dismantle the entire Internet.
Here is the short clip regarding the matter. From there, you can see that the American soldiers are brutally killing the people in Iraq even the innocents.
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When I was reading the article, I thought that Assange might get caught by the government for posting such content on the web yet, somehow Assange manage to get away from it. It is because WikiLeak has more than twenty servers all over the world and have up to hundreds of domain names in the world wide web. It make the government close to impossible to track him down.
"Lawyers working for the British bank Northern Rock threatened court action after the site published an embarrassing memo, but they were practically reduced to begging. A Kenyan politician also vowed to sue after Assange published a confidential report alleging that President Daniel arap Moi and his allies had siphoned billions of dollars out of the country. The site’s work in Kenya earned it an award from Amnesty International."
Even until now, WikiLeak is available and without you noticing, they might be in an operation of coming out with another leak again. In my opinion, WikiLeak is not exactly a bad organization. This website actually helped us a lot in knowing the truth of some organization, with the excellent skills of them, Assange even able to get away from all kinds of lawsuit. It is indeed total transparency to everything. Nothing will be cover or hide from in this area.
This organization was initiated by a man named Julian Paul Assange. According to Khatchadourian, "since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive catalogue of secret material, ranging from the Standard Operating Procedures at Camp Delta, in Guantanamo Bay, and the "Climategate" e-mails from the University of Easy Anglia, in England, to the contents of Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account." (2010)
In the article written by Raffi Khatchadourian, one of the videos that was posted up on WikiLeaks is the video taken regarding the attack of the American soldiers in Iraq back in year 2007. In the progress of gettign the video up on the Internet, Assange went through a tough period.
When Assange got the video footage, a number of people who share the same thoughts with Assange volunteered to help out to edit the video to a short clip in total secrecy. Besides that, Assange also intends to ensure that when the videos is up on Internet, there will be no way to take down the video unless they were to dismantle the entire Internet.
Here is the short clip regarding the matter. From there, you can see that the American soldiers are brutally killing the people in Iraq even the innocents.
(click to go to the original site)
When I was reading the article, I thought that Assange might get caught by the government for posting such content on the web yet, somehow Assange manage to get away from it. It is because WikiLeak has more than twenty servers all over the world and have up to hundreds of domain names in the world wide web. It make the government close to impossible to track him down.
"Lawyers working for the British bank Northern Rock threatened court action after the site published an embarrassing memo, but they were practically reduced to begging. A Kenyan politician also vowed to sue after Assange published a confidential report alleging that President Daniel arap Moi and his allies had siphoned billions of dollars out of the country. The site’s work in Kenya earned it an award from Amnesty International."
Even until now, WikiLeak is available and without you noticing, they might be in an operation of coming out with another leak again. In my opinion, WikiLeak is not exactly a bad organization. This website actually helped us a lot in knowing the truth of some organization, with the excellent skills of them, Assange even able to get away from all kinds of lawsuit. It is indeed total transparency to everything. Nothing will be cover or hide from in this area.
Some of the people might think that WikiLeaks is not a good organization for the fact that it is invading other's privacy but in fact, this organization just helped us to know and understand more about the stories behind the pretty lies.
Again, this is about the ugly truth.
Again, this is about the ugly truth.
On a side note, if you're wondering how Assange got all the money as his expenses, it's all donation. Knowing that this organization reveals the stories behind the scenes, there are people more than happy to donate money so that his operation/project can go on. Cool isn't it? This is the power of collaboration! From here, we can see that there are things that even the government can't govern. The WikiLeaks!
Check out more leaks from the website itself!! (http://wikileaks.org/)
