What were the really egregious evils they did? I confess to not reading them
all.
-- Owen
On Dec 7, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> Fixed that for you. Opinions are always welcomed.
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the age of social media and social networks
> privacy has become an issue of intense debate.
> Privacy means an individual has the right to be secure from unauthorized
> disclosure of information about oneself.
>
> Now if a state has "state secrets", is this fundamentally different from
> privacy issues for
> the individual (only for the state)? Should
> a state in a democracy have any real secrets
> at all? And if the state has the right to prevent invasion of privacy,
> shouldn't the individual have the same right, too?
>
> In my opinion, It is clearly evil what Wikileaks has done recently,
> and I think they went to far this time. But too much censorship
> and secrecy is not a good idea, either (as the "top secret america"
> investigation from the Washington Post showed). What do you think?
>
> -J.
>
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