Julian Assange

3/14/2013

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Do you think publishing classified information onto a site like Wikileaks is right? What positive and/or negative consequence on society do you think publishing confidential documents would have? What do you think should happen to Jullian Assange for publishing these documents?

7 Comments

janaina navarro

3/14/2013 10:52:38 am

I think WikiLeaks is an essential instrument for people -- especially the opressed people -- to stand up for themselves on today's world. Leaking these informations is one of the few effective forms of fighting back those that are exploiting the world. The negatives outcomes would only be negative for the big corporations or governments, what most commonly doesn't imply on negative consequences for the population. To know what is really happening, and not what a few people want us to think is happening, empowers us. Give us the possibility to step forward and change what isn't right. Bringing this knowledge to whole populations is to unveil the truth and make democracy possible. Julian Assange should be canonized for publishing these documents.

Elvis Guterres link

3/14/2013 11:07:25 am

From my point of view, he is brilliant. He posted the true story so that people can be aware about that. Positive consequence on society is to inform people in the world about what is happening around the world. Negative consequence, however, on society is all the confidential information, of course, will impact to the national stability or national security. I personally believe that he did not do any big mistake. What he would like to do is to inform public about the true story so that public can be aware of that. He is also brilliant so we should appreciate him.

Anis

3/14/2013 11:04:21 am

I think it is a good vedio clip,because there were a lot of hidden information that people shoud know. So for common people the vedio was interesting but those people were victim of that sitstution its really a pathatcis for them. Specially there were a vedio clips that army person were Laughing and targeting the peoples of bagdad that was really the touchy moment. So at the end i will say that it was good for common people becouse now we know about it but in the other hand it will give a lot of pain for those victim peoples.

Abdullah

3/14/2013 11:08:08 am

It's good interview because there are alot of information that reveal for the first time but i dont like the video of Iraq because it is a humanitarian.
However, i don't agree with Wikileaks because it make other government know our military plans that must be kept secret.

Adelina

3/14/2013 11:14:46 am

From my point of view, I think that Julian Assange is a very good and wise man who has established this WikiLeaks website. This is, of course, a very unsafe web where it collects and posts classified documents from certain country’s confidentiality or turmoil plans. However, there are positive and negative views on this. Firstly, on the positive side this information leaking will become a good source where people around the world know the plan of United States against human right abuse such as, in Baghdad. From this advance leaking, international community will stand and protest againts the country to stop the plan and act of attacking innocent people such as children who were also victims of wars. On the negative side, this video leaking will affect people who are watching it as physiology this will affect people’s feeling, mentality and traumatic on how bad war is and, in particular, the children who sees this.

Joe

3/14/2013 11:23:52 am

As the video said, Julian is really a hero who leaked to the press the inside news. But press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law, so Vikileaks never use the legal privacies such as: patient’s condition, and the informers who betrayed the information that has a motivation.
Vikileaks only want people know the trues of the news, therefore, this is the reason of Wikileaks has any dissidents, and they don’t have sources who are dissidents on other sources. If people know these information from Wikileaks, then they will have a clear attitude of the government. And it bring a big develop for our world. In addition, Wikileaks is a hero media that has already released more classified documents than the rest of the world’s media combined in the last few years. And the world was changed by Wikileaks.

Ximena Paola

3/17/2013 03:48:12 pm

In my opinion, Julian Assange is very smart and knowledgeable managing information around the world. He already knows how to treat and classify documents in order to benefit or harm people. So the right or bad think of classifying information depends of the purpose of his work. It could bring positive and negative consequences into society. One of the negative sides will be affecting people, communities, industries and government who are involved in his videos. On the other hand, it could bring positive consequences such as good resources, prevent about political and economic attacks, leak information related to administrative misconduct. He needs to be careful of this because this activity is very risky as a consequence people want to attack and pursue for his actions.

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