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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
no no you misunderstand me. I mean logistically stay underground, why have gone so public, I mean paypal? Visa? Come off it, that shit is hardly pirate nor underground. They could have easily gotten the exact same publicity without having to exposed themselves so much. They went TOO public about this, the internet is full of hackers who make plenty of strictly anonoymous waves, and honestly when it first came out I thought that is entirely what WikiLeaks was all about? What could it expect when it tried to play revolutionary using the mechanisms of the establishment? Pirates use dope money stay off the radar, even the CIA knows that  |
I think you misunderstood. Wikileaks is not pirate or hacking, it is just a website that posts information sent to them, nothing illegal about it, nothing newspapers cannot do - in theory.
They wouldn't have gotten the same publicity and impact, because the real significance is not in the documents themselves (tho scary, nothing that people did not know or imagine) but what they're actually doing to this one person: ignoring laws, calling for execution, unfair accusations and procedures. That is saying something significant, that causes a reaction in people. It's not like they didn't know this was going to happen. It isn't about the documents it's about the fuss.