Jack All 24 - Wikileaks; Caution advised

by TastyJack Monday, February 07, 2011 0 comments

Hey Guys! I was inadvertently caught up in wikileaks protest in the city yesterday on the way to a friends 18th. The protest was obviously about Julian Assange and the "attack" on wikileaks by various governments around the world in particular, America. Australia has a particular vested interest in this issue as Julian Assange is an Australian, who graduated locally at the University of Melbourne.

Wikileaks is without a doubt something new to this world. It has caused great change in the world in international relations and how everyone sees the government. People have been quick to jump on the bandwagon of wikileaks saying it has given the people power and made government more accountable. 

Currently various newspapers who releases the cables (The Age in Melbourne) work closely with wikileaks to decide what the public should know. The cables released so far have done everything from toppling a government to personal information of those who worked closely with the coalition forces in Afghanistan.

This is where the Wikileaks is on shaky grounds. Which documents to release. In many cases they get it right, in others they get it wrong. As they continue to release thousands of cables they will inevitably get blood on their hands if they haven't already.

To the uneducated, Wikileaks is the best thing thats happen to society since the invention of the silicon chip. The effects of Wikileaks on society has yet to be ascertained and it would be naive to think that Wikilekas has no flaws. Freedom of information should only go so far; governments have cables hidden from the public for a reason. If you think they're not doing a good job then don't vote for them. Calling for total transparency is not how the system works, nor is it how it should work.

The media attention on Wikileaks has been bias to put it lightly. Jumping on its bandwagon and blindly supporting it, doesn't show you care about society either.