Wikileaks Paper
Title: Democracy without transparency is no democracy; it’s just an empty word.
Essay for: Global Media Perspectives
Main topic: Information reliability of media in the 21st century
Topic: WikiLeaks
Author: Bas Tietze
Student number: 456918
Class: 4MD41 [Duaal student]
Teacher: Henk Schilstra
What is WikiLeaks?
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Wikileaks.org was created by Julian Assange and a group of colleagues and it is dependent on public donations. They wanted a platform for ‘whistle blowers’ to expose abusive institutions in order to create a check on powerful systems such as governments and big companies. They think that the governments of the world have long proven their ability to strangle freedom and privacy by the abuse of state surveillance. They believe that mass leaking of true information is the most cost-effective political weapon. With these believes they intend to place a new star on the political firmament of man.
WikiLeaks describes its founders as a mix of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. One year after the launch of wikileaks.org they claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents from thirteen countries. The followers/conspirators comprised of hackers and mathematicians are located all over the world and communicate via a restricted mailing list. In January 2010 the organization has 5 full-time employees and over 800 volunteers with unknown identities. Since the foundation of wikileaks.org, no media system has been as successful in advocating government and institutional accountability while keeping the identities of its sources secret. In its four years of publishing history, WikiLeaks has played quite a role in changing the world. The best leaks in my
Essay for: Global Media Perspectives
Main topic: Information reliability of media in the 21st century
Topic: WikiLeaks
Author: Bas Tietze
Student number: 456918
Class: 4MD41 [Duaal student]
Teacher: Henk Schilstra
What is WikiLeaks?
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Wikileaks.org was created by Julian Assange and a group of colleagues and it is dependent on public donations. They wanted a platform for ‘whistle blowers’ to expose abusive institutions in order to create a check on powerful systems such as governments and big companies. They think that the governments of the world have long proven their ability to strangle freedom and privacy by the abuse of state surveillance. They believe that mass leaking of true information is the most cost-effective political weapon. With these believes they intend to place a new star on the political firmament of man.
WikiLeaks describes its founders as a mix of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. One year after the launch of wikileaks.org they claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents from thirteen countries. The followers/conspirators comprised of hackers and mathematicians are located all over the world and communicate via a restricted mailing list. In January 2010 the organization has 5 full-time employees and over 800 volunteers with unknown identities. Since the foundation of wikileaks.org, no media system has been as successful in advocating government and institutional accountability while keeping the identities of its sources secret. In its four years of publishing history, WikiLeaks has played quite a role in changing the world. The best leaks in my