SomeActualData wrote:
Ironically, a group allegedly devoted to the free flow of information (Wikileaks) is, in this case, hindering exactly that. Leaking diplomatic cables is only going to *decrease* the amount of information different countries are willing to share with each other.
Are you suggesting that because of the possibility of a negative consequence than wikileaks is wrong?
By that logic anything with a potential negative should be banned than.
The only even remotely close to being valid argument i can think of for why wikileaks should not have released the information is that it could lead to a greater clamp down of civil liberties. It would proced like this: the government says that innocent people were killed by it and pass a law making it illegal for any entity to release any information that is classified confidential or higher. The government than decides to start coding most of its activity as classified so than we have even less access to information and the government has more free reign.
This does not hinder my support for wikileaks though, for the same reason as stated above