Public accountability of governance / Paul Macmillan -- Public security & welfare at risk / Jedidiah Bracy -- Active advocates for change / Nozomi Hayase -- Peace with justice : the struggle for human rights through non-violent means / Stuart Rees -- Wikileaks witch hunt / Nicole Colson -- Changing the free speech movement / Monica Morrill -- We can't pretend we don't know / Slavoj Zizek -- Wikileaks must be counted among the enemies of open society / Steven Aftergood -- Why Wikileaks risks your freedoms / P�aivikki Karhula -- Leaks in the age of accountability / James W. Davis and Miriam Meckel -- Wikileaks endangers our intelligence community / Joshua Foust -- How to profile a whistleblower / Suelette Dreyfus, Reeva Lederman, A.J. Brown -- Worldwide, super injunctions put country before justice / Binoy Kampmark.
Summary:
What is Wikileaks and how does it work? Wikileaks aims to expose secrets and make available important, and often classified, information to the public. The organization's commitment to encouraging and protecting whistleblowers and journalists is seen by many to be a heroic fight for free speech and government transparency. But at what point does the First Amendment matter more than security and diplomacy? Is the organization's agenda really as pure as it purports? Through reading a variety of authoritative viewpoints on the topic, readers will be encouraged to make sense of this ethical dilemma.
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