Wikileads

Business lobbyists and politicians will be meeting today to discuss the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, according to an internal memo released today by Wikileaks.
The proposed agreement would criminalize copyright and intellectual property offenses. Under ACTA, Internet service providers would be required to filter illegal transfers of content and help the government track down the people [...]

The 4,000 journalists covering the Group of 8 summit have scrutinized the contents of attendees’ meals. They’ve mocked the unjustifiable old-white-manishness of this and other global summits. They’ve even analyzed the global — if momentary — economic impact of George W. Bush’s speech.
But mainstream media coverage has not yet mentioned the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a [...]

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An as yet unpublished screenplay written by Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, is now available at Wikileaks.org.
It’s called Revolt in the Stars. I have not read the entire document, but it appears to be more of a novel than a screenplay. The story begins with some heavily armed marines dragging something big out of the [...]

Most targets of Wikileaked documents respond defensively when they find out about the sensitive, private material posted about them online.
The Church of Scientology and the Mormon Church sent cease-and-desist letters when Wikileaks published their secret theological documents, and a U.K. spokeswoman emailed Wikileaks to request that these early drawings of the atomic bomb be taken [...]

Thousands of Koreans have taken to the streets to protest a free-trade agreement between South Korea and the U.S. that would reopen Korea to U.S. beef imports.
The protests turned violent over the weekend as riot police beat protesters and sprayed them with water cannons. Wikileaks released photos of the bloodshed.

Beef imports to Korea were cut [...]

Most of the recently published analyses on Wikileaks have been written by professional reporters, for professional news organizations.
The BBC tackled this leak, a recording of an official at Kingston University telling students their degrees “will be shit” if they don’t lie on a national survey that ranks higher education in the UK. The Times [...]

The UK-based Resist Network interviewed Wikileaks director Julian Assange about the ethics, mission and purpose of Wikileaks and whistleblowing. Check out the videos on YouTube:
The ethical leaking of corporate secrets:

The ethical leaking of government plans:

Secrets will be exposed sooner or later:

Remove your coat. Take off your shoes. If your belt, earrings, watch or necklace are made of metal, take them off, too. Get your laptop out of your briefcase. Put all liquids in a small, clear plastic bag. Your skin is a bit too dark, your clothes a bit too shabby. Step over here and [...]

Check out this fascinating article about Wikileaks from the Toronto Globe and Mail. The article’s writer, Ivor Tossell, discusses Wikileaks in the grand sense — what the site means for governments, dissidents and the Internet, and how the group’s legal invincibility and pro-citizen moral code have allowed it to take full advantage of the Internet [...]