Åsne, Linda og Henriette

Wikileaks

The text is about Wikileaks and what they have done through the years. It only tells about the bad things they have done, nothing positive. Wikileaks was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, and it is five full-time volunteers and 800-1000 people they can call for expertise. They use their own website to write about the government’s secrets and stories that the people do not get to hear about. They have a dozen servers around the world, which makes it impossible for the government to silence them. The text also tells about how dangerous Wikileaks is for American officials that when they in July 2010 published confidential military field reports risked the lives of soldiers and civilians. Assange was arrested because of raping two girls when he was visiting Sweden. Then some of his internet supporters hacked into corporations and other institutions they believed were aiding his persecution, declaring the start of a “cyberwar”.

The Wikileaks has actually got a lot of attention through the medias, and with good reason. There are many positive and negative reasons that comes with Wikileaks, and many of us have not taken a side yet. The USA is especially against Wikileaks, because there is confidential information of the US government that has been leaked. People also think it is a bad thing because the information is not meant for everyone to know and it is harming national security. F.eks terror. If it comes out that a country is exposed to terror, this information will only create terror.

I think the text only focuses on the negative things about Wikileaks. There must be some positive things about it too. Some of them are that they let the people know things the government don’t tell, that we should have the right to know about. But of course, there are reasons why the government does not go public with everything they know. Like the safety of the people, soldiers and officials.

I also think that the reason Assange was arrested because of rape is because he is the leader of Wikileaks and they wanted him from the beginning.     

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