Chapter_23. Eaves.ca. En défense d'Internet et de WikiLeaks (2): la question démocratique. En nos temps troublés et incertains, mêlant peurs et inquiétudes, l'extension des libertés est la seule garantie pour éviter aveuglements et démagogies, impostures et aventures.
Or, au principe et au ressort de la démocratie, il y a le droit à l'information, condition d'une participation éclairée des citoyens aux affaires publiques. La haine d'Internet est une haine de la démocratie, disais-je dans le billet précédent. Les polémiques soulevées par le feuilleton WikiLeaks l'ont illustré, parfois jusqu'à la caricature. C'est ainsi que l'on trouve, sur le site de la revue La Règle du jeu, dirigée par Bernard-Henri Lévy et récemment fêtée par elle-même, l'affirmation que «WikiLeaks n'appartient pas à la démocratie, mais à la dictature». Sous la signature de l'auteur de ce réquisitoire, l'écrivain Yann Moix, la démocratie a un drôle de visage, dans une inversion des valeurs toute orwellienne: loin d'être un partage, elle est un privilège; loin d'être une liberté, elle est une privation. Localeaks: A Drop-Box for Anonymous Tips to 1400 U.S. Newspapers. Although the mission of WikiLeaks is to "open governments," it's done quite a lot to make us think about how to open journalism as well.
We've seen a number of new whistleblower sites crop up - OpenLeaks and Rospil, for example - as well as major news organizations - Al Jazeera, and perhaps even The New York Times - investigate ways to facilitate more whistle-blowing and leaking. But why wait for local newspapers to roll out their own anonymous tips pipeline when a project from CUNY Graduate School's Entrepreneurial Journalism program has designed just that thing. Using Localeaks, you can send an anonymous tip, including a file, to over 1400 newspapers in the U.S. through one online form. Choose your state. Choose the newspaper. Each drop-box consists of a secure web connection and a form that encrypts both files and the text submitted (then destroys the originals) as well as removes identifying metadata from documents.
Al Jazeera Transparency Unit. eCuaderno. Wikileaks vs. Journalism: Agree to Disagree. `The truth will always win’ - Julian Assange writes - Media Diary Blog. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian today: Key lines: * WikiLeaks is fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public. * The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth. * (My idea is) to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth. * People have said I am anti-war: for the record, I am not.
. * The Gillard government (Australia) is trying to shoot the messenger because it doesn’t want the truth revealed. Text follows: IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.” His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. These things have stayed with me. Breaking through information monopoly - Features. TUNIS, Tunisia - As history has shown repeatedly, access to information can play a decisive role in triggering social change.
WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy. Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as recently as late February, revealing the Obama administration’s exchanges over crises and conflicts.
The material was originally obtained by , an organization devoted to revealing secret documents. WikiLeaks posted 220 cables, some redacted to protect diplomatic sources, in the first installment of the archive on its Web site on Sunday. The disclosure of the cables is sending shudders through the diplomatic establishment, and could strain relations with some countries, influencing international affairs in ways that are impossible to predict. Secretary of State and American ambassadors around the world have been contacting foreign officials in recent days to alert them to the expected disclosures. A statement from the White House on Sunday said: “We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.”
Mr. Cablegate One Year Later: How WikiLeaks Has Influenced Foreign Policy, Journalism, and the First Amendment. One year ago today, WikiLeaks started publishing a trove of over 250,000 leaked U.S.
State Department cables, which have since formed the basis of reporting for newspapers around the globe. The publication has given the public a window into the inner workings of government at an unprecedented scale, and in the process, has transformed journalism in the digital age. In recognition, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was just awarded Australia’s version of the Pulitzer Prize, in addition to the Martha Gellhorn journalism prize he won in the United Kingdom earlier this year.